{"id":"CVE-2025-53501","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-53501","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T06:13:27.321Z","title":"Improper Access Control vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Scribunto Extension allows : Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by Authorization.This issue affects Mediawiki - Scribunto Extension: from 1.39.X before 1.39.12, from…","description":"Improper Access Control vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Scribunto Extension allows : Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by Authorization.This issue affects Mediawiki - Scribunto Extension: from 1.39.X before 1.39.12, from 1.42.X before 1.42.7, from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.","published":"2025-07-03T17:15:40.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:38:20.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacc","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-284"],"affected":["xtex/scribunto"],"epss":{"score":0.00383,"percentile":0.32186,"date":"2026-10-27","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 (0.38%). 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/Scribunto/+/1164541","tags":["Patch"],"source":"c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacc"},{"url":"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397524","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Patch"],"source":"c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacc"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53501","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."}