CVE-2026-116884 (GCVE-0-2026-116884)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-27 10:23
Modified
2026-10-27 10:26
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
SemanticMediaWiki from 5.0.0 before 7.3.1 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in ext.smw.tooltip.tippy.js that renders data-* attributes via innerHTML with allowHTML enabled. Editors can plant a .smw-highlighter span with a malicious data-content, data-title, data-top, data-bottom, or data-theme attribute to execute JavaScript when viewers, including administrators, hover it.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
SemanticMediaWiki SemanticMediaWiki Version: 5.0.0   ≤
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