CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-53485

7.5 HIGH Published 2025-07-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2025-07-04
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacc
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-862

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.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness

References