Information disclosure in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki

CVE-2025-6590

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki. This vulnerability is associated with program files includes/htmlform/fields/HTMLUserTextField.Php. This issue affects MediaWiki: from * through 1.39.12, 1.42.76 1.43.1, 1.44.0.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published · last modified .

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (28.4th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 28th percentile — 28.4% 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-2025-6590: held from 0.004 to 0.004.

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

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-6590?
CVE-2025-6590 is a vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki, classified under Information Disclosure. Published 2026-02-02.
Is CVE-2025-6590 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.