Semantic MediaWiki 2.4.0 before 7.4.1 contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in…
CVE-2026-126563
Semantic MediaWiki 2.4.0 before 7.4.1 contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in TimeValueFormatter::getCaptionFromFreeFormat(), which emits free-format date captions in HTML without escaping. Unauthenticated attackers can craft a Special:Ask URL with HTML markup in a date printout format (#-F[...]) to execute script in a logged-in victim's browser session.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 5.3 (v4.0)
- Severity
- Medium
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 11 November 2026
- Last updated
- 11 November 2026
- Affected
- SemanticMediaWiki · SemanticMediaWiki
- Assigner
- VulnCheck
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
At the source
References
- https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-h252-mj7p-58q7
- https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/commit/01cb81a6da7af743d2a5eb334db10e52b7318c56
- https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/releases/tag/7.4.1
- https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/7.4.0/src/DataValues/ValueFormatters/TimeValueFormatter.php#L312-L340
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/semantic-mediawiki-2.4.0-before-7.4.1-reflected-xss-via-special-ask-date-format
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