Semantic MediaWiki 7.3.0 before 7.3.1 Missing Authorization via smwtask Update Task
- Published
- Last modified
- Where the record stands: published, rejected by its publisher, or superseded by another id.What do these mean? →
- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Fix
- Fixed in 7.3.1
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
Summary
Semantic MediaWiki, an extension for the MediaWiki wiki platform, is affected by a missing authorization flaw in its update task. Users with ordinary edit rights can abuse it to force semantic data updates and resource-intensive processing on pages they should not be able to modify or trigger updates for.
Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.
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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.
Timeline
- CVE published
- Record last updated
- First seen by cve.now
Affected versions
- SemanticMediaWiki SemanticMediaWiki
From 7.3.0 · fixed in 7.3.1