CVE-2026-116877
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.
Published:Oct 27, 2026
Last Modified:Oct 27, 2026
EPS:Oct 27, 2026
EPSS Score:
CVSS Score:6.5
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Semantic-mediawiki
Product
Semantic Mediawiki
Semantic-mediawiki
Semantic Mediawiki
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
References
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
