CVE-2025-53485

Published Jul 4, 2025

Last updated 10 days ago

CVSS high 7.5

Overview

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.
Source
c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacc
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
7.5
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Severity
HIGH

Weaknesses

c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacc
CWE-862

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

  1. CVE-2025-53485 SetTranslationHandler.php does not validate that the user is an election admin, allowing any (even unauthenticated) user to change election-related translation text. … https://t.co/jgyupyXPar

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References

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