{"id":"CVE-2025-53499","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-53499","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:19:34.006Z","title":"Missing Authorization vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - AbuseFilter Extension allows Unauthorized Access.This issue affects Mediawiki - AbuseFilter Extension: from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.","description":"Missing Authorization vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - AbuseFilter Extension allows Unauthorized Access.This issue affects Mediawiki - AbuseFilter Extension: from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.","published":"2025-07-07T19:15:24.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:38:20.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacc","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.1,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-862"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.0033,"percentile":0.25945,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.33%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/AbuseFilter/+/1166045","source":"c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacc"},{"url":"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397196","source":"c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacc"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53499","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}