CVE-2025-53478

The Mediawiki - CheckUser extension is vulnerable to reflected XSS (CWE-79) within the Special:Investigate interface. The root cause is the improper escaping of certain internationalized system messages rendered on the "IPs and User agents" tab. This issue affects versions 1.39.X before 1.39.13, ...

Europe Is Building a Huge International Facial Recognition System

Lawmakers advance proposals to let police forces across the EU link their photo databases—which include millions of pictures of people’s faces...