CVE-2026-126563: medium-severity vulnerability in SemanticMediaWiki
Semantic MediaWiki 2.4.0 before 7.4.1 Reflected XSS via Special:Ask Date Format
Published
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10Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.3
Semantic MediaWiki 2.4.0 before 7.4.1 contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in TimeValueFormatter::getCaptionFromFreeFormat(), which emits free-format date captions in HTML without escaping. Unauthenticated attackers can craft a Special:Ask URL with HTML markup in a date printout format (#-F[...]) to execute script in a logged-in victim's browser session.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
Affected products
SemanticMediaWiki · SemanticMediaWikiRelated CVEs — SemanticMediaWiki
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-116878HIGHSemantic MediaWiki 2.5.0 before 7.3.1 Resource Exhaustion via Special:PropertyLabelSimilarityEPSS 0.4%CVE-2025-61682HIGHSemantic MediaWiki vulnerable to stored XSS through wikitext via improper use of non-reserved data attributesEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-116871HIGHSemantic MediaWiki 3.0.0 before 7.3.1 Uncontrolled Recursion via Special:AskEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-116877HIGHSemantic MediaWiki 2.5.0 before 7.3.1 Resource Exhaustion via #set_recurring_eventEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-116872HIGHSemantic MediaWiki 3.0.0 before 7.3.1 Denial of Service via Special:Search Compact FiltersEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-77616MEDIUMSemantic MediaWiki affected by reflected XSS in `Special:Ask` via a forged cursor pagination tokenEPSS 0.3%
References
https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/7.4.0/src/DataValues/ValueFormatters/TimeValueFormatter.php#L312-L340https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/commit/01cb81a6da7af743d2a5eb334db10e52b7318c56https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/releases/tag/7.4.1https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-h252-mj7p-58q7https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/semantic-mediawiki-2.4.0-before-7.4.1-reflected-xss-via-special-ask-date-format