CVE-2026-0668

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki - VisualData Extension allows Regular Expression Exponential Blowup.This issue affects MediaWiki - VisualData Extension: 1.45.

CVSS v3 5.3 MEDIUM

5.3^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 1.4

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact LOW

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I4ff2737c9f0ba805267d1fc8296e7cff61241ee3	Patch
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I893a9fca694a2613e29e149dea2d76d7f06063e5	Patch
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ie08d9a8ceb2c9a22a635cfc27964353f14072dbf	Patch
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ifbf9c2ade621226e14fe852f3217293772bf8bb8	Patch
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T387008	Exploit Issue Tracking

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

AND

cpe:2.3:a:wikisphere:visualdata:-:*:*:*:*:mediawiki:*:*

cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.45.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-01-07 18:15

Updated : 2026-02-24 18:32

NVD link : CVE-2026-0668

Mitre link : CVE-2026-0668

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-0668

JSON object : View

Products Affected

mediawiki

mediawiki

wikisphere

visualdata

CWE

CWE-1333

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

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