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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2026-116879 EUVD-2026-110707GHSA-562p-4gfm-c22f

Semantic MediaWiki 7.3.0 before 7.3.1 Missing Authorization via smwtask Update Task

Published Oct 27, 2026 · Updated Nov 4, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
SemanticMediaWiki SemanticMediaWiki 7.3.0 – < 7.3.1 7.3.1

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