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CVE-2025-53501: Content Access Bypass in Scribunto

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-07-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

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.

Affected products

• Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Scribunto Extension: all versions

References

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Scribunto/+/1164541
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397524

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