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.
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| 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. | |
| Title | Semantic MediaWiki 2.5.0 before 7.3.1 Resource Exhaustion via #set_recurring_event | |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:semantic-mediawiki:semantic_mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:mediawiki:*:* | |
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Semantic-mediawiki semantic Mediawiki |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-27T10:26:42.104Z
Reserved: 2026-10-27T01:00:42.500Z
Link: CVE-2026-116877
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-27T11:17:29.687
Modified: 2026-10-27T11:17:29.687
Link: CVE-2026-116877
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-10-27T11:30:13Z
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