CVE-2021-41799
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-10-11 00:00
Modified
2024-08-04 03:22
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
References
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