CVE-2025-62699 Special:Translate tool does not use the correct IP and User-Agent in the CheckUser tool

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Translate Extension allows Footprinting. Translate extension appears to use jobs to make edits to translation pages. This causes the CheckUser tool to log the wrong IP and User-Agent...

CVE-2025-62699

The CVE-2025-62699 issue affects the Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki Translate Extension (master before 1.39). The root cause is the Translate Extension’s use of jobs to edit translation pages, which causes the CheckUser tool to log the wrong IP and User-Agent, making these edits un-auditable. Thi...