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CVE-2025-62695: The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki – WikiLambda Extension · XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting'

Affects The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki – WikiLambda ExtensionSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.9 Medium.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 10:12 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 37% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
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 21 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 26 Oct 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

To mitigate CVE-2025-62695 effectively, European organizations should: 1) Monitor the Wikimedia Foundation's official channels for patches or updates to the WikiLambda Extension and apply them promptly once available. 2) Implement strict input validation and output encoding on all user-generated content within Mediawiki to prevent malicious scripts from being stored or rendered. 3) Deploy Content Security Policies (CSP) to restrict the execution of unauthorized scripts in users' browsers, thereby reducing the impact of any injected code. 4) Conduct regular security audits and code reviews of custom Mediawiki extensions to identify and remediate similar vulnerabilities. 5) Educate wiki administrators and users about the risks of XSS and encourage reporting of suspicious content. 6) Consider isolating or sandboxing the WikiLambda Extension if feasible, to limit the scope of potential exploitation. 7) Use web application firewalls (WAFs) configured to detect and block XSS attack patterns targeting Mediawiki installations. These measures, combined, will reduce the likelihood and impact of exploitation.

Description

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

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