CVE-2026-77607 PUBLISHED

Semantic MediaWiki affected by Special:Ask table `sep` parameter reflected XSS

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 20.08.2026 Published: 18.09.2026 Updated: 18.09.2026

Semantic MediaWiki is a free, open-source extension to MediaWiki that lets users store and query data within the wiki's pages. Prior to version 7.2.0, sep was inserted verbatim into HTML cell joins. This made it possible to inject HTML through the separator value. Version 7.2.0 fixes the issue.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.1

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Changed
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	Low
Privileges Required	None	Integrity Impact	Low
User Interaction	Required	Availability Impact	None

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	SemanticMediaWiki
Product	SemanticMediaWiki
Versions	Version < 7.2.0 is affected

References

https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/security/advisories/GHSA-7xv3-gf2g-498h
https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/releases/tag/7.2.0

Problem Types

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') CWE