Vulnerability · CVE-2025-53501
Improper Access Control vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Scribunto Extension allows : Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by Authorization.This issue
Published Jul 3, 2025 · catalog updated Jul 10, 2025 · Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Scribunto Extension
Check this week
CVE-2025-53501 is not in CISA KEV. FIRST estimates a 38.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Check whether you run Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Scribunto Extension.
Gaps on this record
- No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
- Severity
- High8.8
- Known exploitation
- Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
- EPSS
- 38.00%
- Remediation
- Version ranges on file
- Affected products
- vendor Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Scribunto Extension 1.39.x <1.39.13
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.
Are you affected?
Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.
The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.
- vendor Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Scribunto Extension 1.39.x <1.39.131.39.x <1.39.13
How to fix CVE-2025-53501
Recommended remediation
Affected version ranges suggest a fixed boundary. Verify against the vendor advisory for your release.
Official advisories
What to do
Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.
Should you patch?
CVE-2025-53501 is not in CISA KEV. FIRST estimates a 38.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Check whether you run Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Scribunto Extension.
Which versions are affected?
Compare what you have installed with Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Scribunto Extension 1.39.x <1.39.13 1.39.x <1.39.13. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.
What should an analyst verify?
No weakness class is stored. EPSS 38.00%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.
Code
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No public source repository is identified for this product.
Timeline
Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.
Jul 3, 2025 · EUVD
Detected
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.
Jul 10, 2025 · EUVD
Updated
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.
Sources
- EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-19886
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
euvd.enisa.europa.eu
References
Freshness
Last verified in this catalog Jul 10, 2025. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.