CVE-2025-12004 | Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulner… | CVSS 10.0 CRITICAL

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.

Metadata

CVE ID: CVE-2025-12004
State: PUBLISHED
Assigner: wikimedia-foundation
Reserved: 2025-10-21 06:09 UTC
Published: 2025-10-21 06:20 UTC
Last updated: 2025-10-21 14:08 UTC
Primary CWE: CWE-732
CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resourc…
Vendor / Product: The Wikimedia Foundation / Mediawiki - Lockdown Extension
Sources: cve.org · NVD

Severity & Metrics

10.0 CRITICAL CVSS 4.0

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

SSVC — CISA Coordinator

Exploitation: PoC
Automatable: yes
Tech. Impact: total

Affected products (1)

Vendor	Product	Platform	Versions
The Wikimedia Foundation	Mediawiki - Lockdown Extension	—	master < 1.42

Weakness (CWE)

CWE	Source	Description
CWE-732	cna	CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

CVSS scores (1)

Score	Severity	Version	Source	Vector
10.0	CRITICAL	4.0	cna	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

References (2)