CVE-2026-116877

Semantic MediaWiki 2.5.0 before 7.3.1 Resource Exhaustion via #set_recurring_event

State
Published
Severity
8.7 High
Published
Oct 27, 2026
Updated
Oct 27, 2026
Reserved
Oct 27, 2026

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Description

Semantic MediaWiki from 2.5.0 before 7.3.1 contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability that allows low-privilege editors to bypass smwgMaxNumRecurringEvents by supplying a large limit parameter. Attackers can save pages using #set_recurring_event without an end date to generate thousands or millions of date subobjects, exhausting CPU, memory, and database resources.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

ProductVersions
SemanticMediaWikiSemanticMediaWiki
  • 2.5.0 to before 7.3.1Affected
  • 7.3.1Not affected

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