Wikimedia GrowthExperiments up to 1.43 on Mediawiki denial of service

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Wikimedia GrowthExperiments up to 1.43 on Mediawiki. This impacts an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-32079. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Wikimedia GrowthExperiments up to 1.43 on Mediawiki. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - GrowthExperiments allows HTTP DoS.This issue affects Mediawiki - GrowthExperiments: from 1.39 through 1.43.

The weakness was shared by Urbanecm_WMF. The advisory is shared for download at gerrit.wikimedia.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-32079 since 04/03/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-10817). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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Type

• Content Management System

Vendor

• Wikimedia

Name

• GrowthExperiments

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19
• 1.20
• 1.21
• 1.22
• 1.23
• 1.24
• 1.25
• 1.26
• 1.27
• 1.28
• 1.29
• 1.30
• 1.31
• 1.32
• 1.33
• 1.34
• 1.35
• 1.36
• 1.37
• 1.38
• 1.39
• 1.40
• 1.41
• 1.42
• 1.43

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