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CVE-2026-116888

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SemanticMediaWiki from 3.2.0 before 7.3.1 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows users with the smw-schemaedit right to inject markup…

Vendor / product: Semantic-mediawiki — semantic mediawiki

SemanticMediaWiki from 3.2.0 before 7.3.1 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows users with the smw-schemaedit right to inject markup through an unescaped property group schema canonical_name. Attackers can save a schema whose canonical_name holds script markup, which GroupFormatter renders unescaped in Special:Browse headings, executing JavaScript in viewers' sessions including administrators.

CVSS
5.4
5.4 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-10-27 11:17
Modified: 2026-10-28 15:32
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 20 hours ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-28 16:01 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

semantic-mediawiki / semantic_mediawiki ≥3.2.0 <7.3.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-fp94-c5vh-cmhp
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-fp94-c5vh-cmhp

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-28 16:01 UTC · record ↗

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