# CVE-2026-77610: Semantic MediaWiki has a query debug output XSS (\`DebugFormatter\`)

- Also known as: GHSA-Q5FM-9MX6-44F4
- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.2.0
- Published: 2026-09-18 · Updated: 2026-09-21

## Affected

- SemanticMediaWiki: fixed in 7.2.0
- mediawiki/semantic-media-wiki (Packagist): fixed in 7.2.0

## Description

Semantic MediaWiki is a free, open-source extension to MediaWiki that lets users store and query data within the wiki's pages. Prior to version 7.2.0, query debug output (`format=debug`, or the `debug` request parameter on `Special:Ask`) is assembled by `SMW\Query\DebugFormatter` and emitted as raw HTML. Several of its sinks apply no output-context encoding, so attacker-controlled query input is reflected into the page without escaping. On `Special:Ask` the resulting string is concatenated into the page and sent through `OutputPage::addHTML`, never through the MediaWiki parser or Sanitizer. No special user right is required; an anonymous request suffices. This is a reflected XSS: the payload is taken from the request and echoed in the same response. Exploitation requires the query condition to target a text/blob-typed property (whose value is re-serialized verbatim); the predefined `_txt` properties (`Text`, etc.) that ship on every install satisfy this, so no attacker-created content is needed. Version 7.2.0 patches the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on SemanticMediaWiki, mediawiki/semantic-media-wiki, upgrade to a fixed version (7.2.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-q5fm-9mx6-44f4
- https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/releases/tag/7.2.0

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