GHSA-2472-xm32-fr75HighCVSS 6.5
Semantic MediaWiki from 2.5.0 before 7.3.1 contains an uncontrolled resource consumption...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 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.
🔗 References (5)
- https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-vxrm-2g9f-2vqh
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116877
- https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/commit/215599f0fc03274fd4cee9ba0f7162f5a38c031b
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/semantic-mediawiki-2.5.0-before-7.3.1-resource-exhaustion-via-set-recurring-event
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2472-xm32-fr75