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CVE-2021-41799

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2021-10-11 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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 Platforms

Mediawiki MediawikiFedoraproject Fedora

Weakness Type

CWE-770

References