Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain ability to store a semantic value
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DeliverySave malicious property value with HTML markup
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ExploitVictim opens empty property-value autocomplete
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ExecutionRaw value concatenated via container.html()
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ImpactInjected markup renders, potential script in victim browser
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | The property-value autocomplete widget must be enabled, and the attacker must be able to introduce an untrusted semantic property value (via editing or an untrusted import source) that the PValueLookup API returns. Exploitation then requires a second user to open that property-value autocomplete with an empty query (the passive interaction captured as UI:P), at which point jquery.autocomplete.js concatenates the raw value into HTML and calls container.html(). Limiting factors: it is stored rather than directly remote-triggerable (the attacker-controlled value must first be persisted and served by the API); it needs the specific widget enabled; it needs a victim to open the empty-query dropdown; and the confirmed impact is limited to markup injection - the GHSA only states script execution 'may' occur if the browser context accepts an executable construct, so full JavaScript execution is not demonstrated. |
| Impact | This is a stored/DOM cross-site scripting issue (CWE-79) with a vendor-assigned CVSS 4.0 base score of 5.3 (medium), reflecting network vector (AV:N), low complexity (AC:L), no privileges in the supplied vector (PR:N), passive user interaction (UI:P), and only Low confidentiality/integrity impact on both the vulnerable and a subsequent system (VC:L/VI:L/VA:N, SC:L/SI:L/SA:N). No EPSS exploitation-probability score was provided, it is not listed in CISA KEV, and the only proof of concept is the GHSA's deliberately inert marker that injects a benign <span> and explicitly does not execute JavaScript - so exploitation status is a public PoC reference that is not verified as working exploit code. These signals are consistent and point to a real but non-urgent issue rather than a high-severity emergency: the vuln.today Decision label is 'this_month', not act_now/emergency. The practical ceiling is uncertain - the GHSA itself only claims an attacker 'may obtain script-capable behavior if the browser context accepts an executable construct', i.e. markup injection is confirmed but full script execution is not demonstrated. One conflict must be flagged explicitly: the multi-source metadata says 'Patch: Available from vendor' and the composer package data lists 'fixed in 7.3.1', yet the GHSA advisory states 'No patched release is known from the checked history' and that it only assessed 7.3.0 and 7.3.1-alpha - verify the fixed version directly with the vendor before relying on 7.3.1. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker introduces a semantic property value containing HTML markup (by editing a wiki page they can edit, or via a deployment that imports values from an untrusted source). Later, another user focuses the property-value autocomplete widget without typing, triggering an empty-query PValueLookup response whose raw value is concatenated into the dropdown via container.html(), injecting the attacker's markup into that user's browser. A safe, non-executing PoC in the GHSA confirms the markup injection; whether it escalates to script execution depends on the browser context accepting an executable construct. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 28, 2026
Stored cross-site scripting in Semantic MediaWiki 3.0.0 before 7.3.1 lets an attacker who can introduce a malicious semantic property value inject markup into the property-value autocomplete dropdown rendered for another user. The vendor-assigned CVSS 4.0 score is 5.3 (medium); exploitation requires the autocomplete widget to be enabled and a victim to open it with an empty query, and the confirmed impact is markup injection rather than demonstrated JavaScript execution. A safe public proof-of-concept reference shows the markup-injection behavior, but it is not verified as working exploit code, and no CISA KEV active exploitation is reported.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: 7.3.1 - upgrade Semantic MediaWiki to 7.3.1 or later (the Composer package composer/mediawiki/semantic-media-wiki is listed as fixed in 7.3.1, though the GHSA text says no patched release was known from its checked history, so verify 7.3.1 availability with the vendor) per https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-mvpf-4wj8-2hwf. The advisory's code fix is to render suggestion labels with DOM text APIs or an HTML-escaping helper instead of string concatenation followed by .html(); it also recommends a browser regression test for an empty query with a markup marker. If upgrading immediately is not possible, disable the property-value autocomplete widget, which removes the vulnerable rendering path at the cost of losing that autocomplete feature, and restrict semantic-property editing or import to trusted sources so untrusted values cannot enter the PValueLookup response.
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Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Semantic MediaWiki is a MediaWiki extension that stores semantic property values and exposes them through APIs such as PValueLookup. The CWE-79 root cause is unescaped output: PValueLookup returns raw values (src/MediaWiki/Api/Browse/PValueLookup.php:106-118), the property-value autocomplete widget copies them into suggestion.value (res/smw/util/ext.smw.util.autocomplete.propertyvalue.js:98-112), and with an empty query res/jquery/jquery.autocomplete.js:136-140 returns the value unchanged; the formatter then concatenates it into HTML and calls container.html() at lines 667-679. Confirmed affected versions are 7.3.0 and 7.3.1-alpha at revision 61805acbab50e2ffd4f75ebbb23ee9695c191fb8, while the CPE cpe:2.3:a:semanticmediawiki:semanticmediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* and EUVD range cover 3.0.0 before 7.3.1. The vendor CVSS 4.0 vector is 5.3 with PR:N/UI:P, whereas the independent CVSS 3.1 assessment uses PR:L/UI:R/S:C, reflecting that an attacker must first be able to introduce a semantic value and a victim must open the empty-query dropdown; the GHSA only says script execution may occur if the browser context accepts an executable construct, so full JavaScript execution is not demonstrated.
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Severity by source
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
Storing a semantic value typically needs edit capability (PR:L; could be PR:N on open wikis); victim must open the autocomplete (UI:R); payload runs in the browser so S:C; XSS yields limited C/I and no A.
Primary rating from Vendor (VulnCheck).
CVSS VectorVendor: VulnCheck
Lifecycle Timeline
1DescriptionCVE.org
Semantic MediaWiki from 3.0.0 before 7.3.1 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows attackers to inject markup by storing malicious semantic property values rendered unescaped in autocomplete suggestions. When another user opens the property-value autocomplete with an empty query, jquery.autocomplete.js concatenates the raw PValueLookup API value into HTML via container.html(), altering the dropdown and potentially executing script.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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Attack Technique
Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.
MediaWiki 1.22.x before 1.22.2, 1.21.x before 1.21.5, and 1.19.x before 1.19.11, when DjVu or PDF file upload support is
The MWOAuthDataStore::lookup_token function in Extension:OAuth for MediaWiki 1.25.x before 1.25.3, 1.24.x before 1.24.4,
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The admin API module in the QuizGame extension for MediaWiki through 1.37.2 (before 665e33a68f6fa1167df99c0aa18ed0157cdf
The SemanticDrilldown extension for MediaWiki through 1.37.2 (before e688bdba6434591b5dff689a45e4d53459954773) allows SQ
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Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foun
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EUVD-2026-110709
GHSA-g72f-25hp-crjf
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
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