CVE-2025-53485 — SecurePoll: Unauthorized access to SetTranslationHandler allows arbitrary text changes

CVE-2025-53485

SecurePoll: Unauthorized access to SetTranslationHandler allows arbitrary text changes PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Wikimedia Foundation / Mediawiki - SecurePoll extension	affected 1.39.x before 1.39.13; affected 1.42.x before 1.42.7; affected 1.43.x before 1.43.2

CWE

CWE-862

References

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

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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