Security Advisory

CVE-2025-53485

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-07-04 17:39:36
Last updated 2025-07-08 17:38:04
Assigner wikimedia-foundation
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

SetTranslationHandler.php does not validate that the user is an election admin, allowing any (even unauthenticated) user to change election-related translation text. While partially broken in newer MediaWiki versions, the check is still missing. This issue affects Mediawiki - SecurePoll extension: from 1.39.X before 1.39.13, from 1.42.X before 1.42.7, from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.