Medium severity5.4NVD Advisory· Published Oct 27, 2026
CVE-2026-116879
CVE-2026-116879
Description
Semantic MediaWiki from 7.3.0 before 7.3.1 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the smwtask update task that allows users with edit rights to force semantic updates on arbitrary pages. Attackers can supply a serialized subject parameter for a restricted page to trigger forced reparsing, semantic-store writes, and resource-intensive dependency work.
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Affected products
1- Range: <7.3.1
Patches
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References
3- github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/commit/cba0541d1f931e5c5440a483790dd7c3dec1751dnvd
- github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-6wrc-864f-6vqpnvd
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/semantic-mediawiki-7.3.0-before-7.3.1-missing-authorization-via-smwtask-update-tasknvd
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