# CVE-2025-62661: Do permission checking when getting counts of global and local edits, new articles and thanks

- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: 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
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.44
- Published: 2025-10-21 · Updated: 2025-10-21

## Affected

- The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Thanks Extension, Mediawiki - Growth Experiments Extension: from 1.43, fixed in 1.44

## Description

Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Thanks Extension, Mediawiki - Growth Experiments Extension allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs.This issue affects Mediawiki - Thanks Extension, Mediawiki - Growth Experiments Extension: from 1.43 before 1.44.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Thanks Extension, Mediawiki - Growth Experiments Extension, upgrade to a fixed version (1.44) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397497
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Idbc1b5a288ffaa7074eedcbac066358a8ec649dc
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ia584966bb7d4d707eef50529293aa3d468470f18

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