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CVE-2025-62667VulnerabilityPublished Updated

CVE-2025-62667: The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki – GrowthExperiments Extension · XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting'

Affects The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki – GrowthExperiments ExtensionSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.9 Medium : upgrade to 1.39 when convenient.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
6.9Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 38% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch
Available – fixed in 1.39
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 18 Oct 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

What to do

Upgrade The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki – GrowthExperiments Extension to 1.39.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - GrowthExperiments ExtensionAffected
  • <1.39
Fixed in
  • 1.39

AI-suggested

1. 2. If immediate patching is not possible, disable or remove the GrowthExperiments extension to eliminate the attack vector. 3. Implement strict input validation and output encoding on all user-supplied data within the Mediawiki environment, ensuring that scripts or HTML tags are properly sanitized before rendering. 4. Deploy a robust Content Security Policy (CSP) that restricts the execution of inline scripts and limits sources of executable code to trusted domains only. 5. Conduct regular security audits and code reviews of custom extensions or modifications to Mediawiki to detect similar vulnerabilities. 6. Educate administrators and users about the risks of XSS and encourage cautious behavior when interacting with wiki content. 7. Monitor web server logs and application behavior for unusual activities that may indicate exploitation attempts. 8. Consider using web application firewalls (WAF) with rules designed to detect and block XSS payloads targeting Mediawiki installations.

Description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - GrowthExperiments Extension allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Mediawiki - GrowthExperiments Extension: from master before 1.39.

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