CVE-2025-12004
criticalpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.004 · 34 %ileDEEUEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Lockdown Extension allows Privilege Abuse. Fixed in Mediawiki Core Action APIThis issue affects Mediawiki - Lockdown Extension: from master before 1.42.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
ssvc
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weaknesses
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affected products (9)
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advisories (1)
Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.
- WID-SEC-W-2025-2381MediaWiki: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2025-10-21csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in MediaWiki Extensions ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erhöhen, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen und Cross-Site-Scripting-Angriffe durchzuführen.
also known as (3)
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sources
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references (6)
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- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Id275382743957004fa7fc56318fc104d8e2d267bcnnvd
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397521cnnvd
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Id275382743957004fa7fc56318fc104d8e2d267benisa_euvd
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397521enisa_euvd
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Id275382743957004fa7fc56318fc104d8e2d267bnvd
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397521nvd
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