Path Traversal in Wikimedia Foundation Textextracts

CVE-2025-61653

Vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation TextExtracts. This vulnerability is associated with program files includes/ApiQueryExtracts.Php. This issue affects TextExtracts: from * before 1.39.14, 1.43.4, 1.44.1.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published · last modified .

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (26.5th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 27th percentile — 26.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2025-61653: held from 0.003 to 0.004.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.004 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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