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CVE-2026-116877 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:6.5 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-vxrm-2g9f-2vqh	CISA-ADP	ExploitVendor Advisory
https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/commit/215599f0fc03274fd4cee9ba0f7162f5a38c031b	[email protected]	Patch
https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-vxrm-2g9f-2vqh	[email protected]	ExploitVendor Advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/semantic-mediawiki-2.5.0-before-7.3.1-resource-exhaustion-via-set-recurring-event	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-770	Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
semantic-mediawiki semantic mediawiki	>= 2.5.0, < 7.3.1
CPE cpe:2.3:a:semantic-mediawiki:semantic_mediawiki::::::mediawiki::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

3 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Nov 4, 2026	Initial Analysis	[email protected]
Nov 2, 2026	CVE Modified	CISA-ADP
Oct 27, 2026	New CVE Received	[email protected]