CVE-2026-126562

Semantic MediaWiki 3.0.0 before 7.4.1 Uncontrolled Recursion via ElasticStore ConceptDescriptionInterpreter

Published Nov 11, 2026 CVSS 4.0 · 5.3 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Semantic MediaWiki 3.0.0 before 7.4.1 contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in the ElasticStore ConceptDescriptionInterpreter that only detects directly self-referencing concepts. Users with page-edit rights can create mutually referencing concept pages, causing concept page views, Special:Ask, or api.php action=ask queries to exhaust PHP memory or stack.

Remediation

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History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Semantic MediaWiki 3.0.0 before 7.4.1 contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in the ElasticStore ConceptDescriptionInterpreter that only detects directly self-referencing concepts. Users with page-edit rights can create mutually referencing concept pages, causing concept page views, Special:Ask, or api.php action=ask queries to exhaust PHP memory or stack.
Title Semantic MediaWiki 3.0.0 before 7.4.1 Uncontrolled Recursion via ElasticStore ConceptDescriptionInterpreter
First Time appeared Semantic-mediawiki
Semantic-mediawiki semantic Mediawiki
Weaknesses CWE-674
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:semantic-mediawiki:semantic_mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:mediawiki:*:*
Vendors & Products Semantic-mediawiki
Semantic-mediawiki semantic Mediawiki
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
VulnCheck
Published
Updated
Nov 11, 2026, 2:35 AM
Reserved
Nov 11, 2026, 1:08 AM
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
Nov 11, 2026, 3:16 AM
Modified
Nov 12, 2026, 9:30 PM