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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.9 Medium

CVE-2026-116890

Semantic MediaWiki 3.0.0 before 7.3.0 Missing Authorization via smwtask API

Description

Semantic MediaWiki from 3.0.0 before 7.3.0 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the api.php smwtask module that allows unauthenticated attackers to run admin-only maintenance tasks. Attackers can use the public anonymous CSRF token to read internal store statistics, enqueue jobs like smw.entityIdDisposer, and execute queued jobs, degrading performance and altering semantic data.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

SemanticMediaWiki SemanticMediaWiki

Default version status: unaffected

  • 3.0.0 to < 7.3.0affected
  • 7.3.0unaffected

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