CVE-2025-12004 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Lockdown Extension allows Privilege Abuse. Fixed in Mediawiki Core Action APIThis issue affects Mediawiki - Lockdown Extension: from master before 1.42.

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact High

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact High

Vulnerable System Availability Impact High

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact High

Subsequent System Integrity Impact High

Subsequent System Availability Impact High

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Mediawiki	Mediawiki

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References

Link	Providers
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Id275382743957004fa7fc56318fc104d8e2d267b
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397521

History

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 10:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Mediawiki Mediawiki mediawiki
Vendors & Products		Mediawiki Mediawiki mediawiki

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Lockdown Extension allows Privilege Abuse. Fixed in Mediawiki Core Action APIThis issue affects Mediawiki - Lockdown Extension: from master before 1.42.
Title		The compare API module breaks Extension:Lockdown
Weaknesses		CWE-732
References		https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Id275382743957004fa7fc56318fc104d8e2d267b https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397521
Metrics		cvssV4_0 `{'score': 10, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: wikimedia-foundation

Published: 2025-10-21T06:20:04.002Z

Updated: 2025-10-21T14:08:28.782Z

Reserved: 2025-10-21T06:09:56.596Z

Link: CVE-2025-12004

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-10-21T13:41:48.932Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-10-21T07:15:36.643

Modified: 2025-10-21T19:31:25.450

Link: CVE-2025-12004

Redhat

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