Path Traversal in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki

CVE-2025-6589

Vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki. This vulnerability is associated with program files includes/specials/pagers/BlockListPager.Php. This issue affects MediaWiki: >= 1.42.0.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published · last modified .

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (39.6th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 40th percentile — 39.6% 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-2025-6589: held from 0.004 to 0.005.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.005 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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