CVE-2026-116883 (GCVE-0-2026-116883)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-27 10:23
Modified
2026-10-27 10:26
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
Semantic MediaWiki from 3.1.0 before 7.3.1 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows authenticated schema editors to inject HTML through schema descriptions. Attackers with the smw-schemaedit permission can save HTML that is passed unescaped to Html::rawElement() in HtmlBuilder, altering pages and targeting users who view the schema.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SemanticMediaWiki | SemanticMediaWiki |
Version: 3.1.0 ≤ |
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Sightings
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