CVE-2026-126567: medium-severity vulnerability in SemanticMediaWiki
Semantic MediaWiki 3.0.0 before 7.4.1 Stored XSS via Special:Ask Debug Output
Published
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10Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.1
Semantic MediaWiki 3.0.0 before 7.4.1 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Special:Ask with the ElasticStore backend, allowing users with edit rights to inject script through unescaped native_result and score_set output. Attackers can store markup in a Text property or subobject name, then lure victims including administrators to a crafted Special:Ask link to execute script in their session.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/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/MediaWiki/Specials/SpecialAsk.php#L512-L521https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/7.4.0/src/Query/ScoreSet.php#L128-L140https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/commit/fca9922835f4353e67a71cfef4d527d46e7c3ad3https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/releases/tag/7.4.1https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-7j96-w9cc-r7rqhttps://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/semantic-mediawiki-3.0.0-before-7.4.1-stored-xss-via-special-ask-debug-output