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CVE-2026-126565VulnerabilityPublished

SemanticMediaWiki · Semantic MediaWiki 3.0.0 before 7.4.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the ElasticStore and SPARQLStore

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-126565· Medium 5.3

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.3 Medium : upgrade to 7.4.1 when convenient.

Data as of 11 Nov 2026, 04:36 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
5.3Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Thin evidence

One scorer or none
CVSS scores by source
CNA (VulnCheck)CVSS 4.05.3
CNA (VulnCheck)CVSS 3.14.3
Patch
Available – fixed in 7.4.1
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 11 Nov 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 10 Nov 2026.

What to do

Upgrade semanticmediawiki/SemanticMediaWiki to 7.4.1.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
GitHubsemanticmediawiki/SemanticMediaWikipkg:github/semanticmediawiki/SemanticMediaWikiOther threatsAffected
  • >=3.0.0 <7.4.1
Fixed in
  • 7.4.1

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AI-suggested

A fix is available in Semantic MediaWiki version 7.4.1 and later. Users should upgrade to version 7.4.1 or newer to remediate this vulnerability. No other mitigation or workaround is indicated in the provided data.

Description

Semantic MediaWiki versions from 3.0.0 up to but not including 7.4.1 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the ElasticStore and SPARQLStore components. This flaw arises from the ConceptDescriptionInterpreter classes re-expanding concepts without memoization or limiting expansion, allowing users with page-edit rights to create acyclic chains of Concept: pages that cause excessive CPU and memory consumption during queries. The vulnerability can be triggered via concept page views, Special:Ask, or the api.php action=ask endpoint.

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