MediaWiki before 1.36.2 allows a denial of service ...
High severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 24, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated May 22, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Oct 11, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 24, 2022
Last updated
May 22, 2023
MediaWiki before 1.36.2 allows a denial of service (resource consumption because of lengthy query processing time). ApiQueryBacklinks (action=query&list=backlinks) can cause a full table scan.
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