CVE-2026-126562
MEDIUM
NVD
CVSS Score
4.3
Severity
MEDIUM
Published
Nov 11, 2026
Vendor
unknown
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.
References
- https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/7.4.0/src/Elastic/QueryEngine/DescriptionInterpreters/ConceptDescriptionInterpreter.php#L34-L75
- https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/commit/35d8f8c9c7b48a476751ca0b795b78b648756828
- https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/releases/tag/7.4.1
- https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-jwx8-mm92-gv95
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/semantic-mediawiki-3.0.0-before-7.4.1-uncontrolled-recursion-via-elasticstore-conceptdescriptioninterpreter