CVE-2025-53485

7.5 highEPSS 0.3%

High (7.5). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 21% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-862
Published: 2025-07-04
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/149668
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392341

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