[ CVE-2026-116878 · Published 27 Oct 2026 ]
Vulnerability in SemanticMediaWiki
CVSS 7.5
EPSS <1%Fix available
[ Description ]Official description
Semantic MediaWiki from 2.5.0 before 7.3.1 contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability that allows anonymous attackers to force quadratic computation by supplying a zero limit to Special:PropertyLabelSimilarity. Attackers can send repeated requests with limit=0 to bypass the SQL LIMIT and trigger pairwise similar_text() comparisons, exhausting PHP CPU, memory, and database connections.
[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches
- Patch on github.comVendor patch or bulletin · NVD · Reference tagged 'Patch' by NVD
[ References ]References
- github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/commit/15ed8489a4ca142ea5417d0c4403dbbe0…Patch
- github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-wh64-r5x2-vjgfExploitVendor AdvisoryMitigation
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/semantic-mediawiki-2.5.0-before-7.3.1-resource-exhaustion-…Third Party Advisory