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CVE-2021-41799
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-10-11T08:15:06.767 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:08:56.053

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.

Affected products

mediawiki — mediawiki

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References

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