CVE-2026-126562
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Uncontrolled Recursion in Semantic MediaWiki via Concept Pages

Publication date: 2026-11-11

Last updated on: 2026-11-11

Assigner: VulnCheck

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.

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Published
2026-11-11
Last Modified
2026-11-11
Generated
2026-11-11
EPSS Evaluated
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NVD
CVE-2026-126562
EUVD
EUVD-2026-123077

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Vendor Product Version / Range
semantic_mediawiki semantic_mediawiki to 7.4.1 (exc)

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CWE ID Description
CWE-674 The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

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