CVE-2025-62661: Do permission checking when getting counts of global and local edits, new articles and thanks
The Wikimedia Foundation · Mediawiki - Thanks Extension, Mediawiki - Growth Experiments Extension
Fixed in 1.44 · Affected: The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Thanks Extension, Mediawiki - Growth Experiments Extension before 1.44 · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.
Higher than 29% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Thanks Extension, Mediawiki - Growth Experiments Extension allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs.This issue affects Mediawiki - Thanks Extension, Mediawiki - Growth Experiments Extension: from 1.43 before 1.44.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- The Wikimedia Foundation · Mediawiki - Thanks Extension, Mediawiki - Growth Experiments Extensionfrom 1.43 before 1.44
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- The Wikimedia Foundation
- Published
- October 2025
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