Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting mediawiki/core package, versions <1.39.14>=1.43.0, <1.43.4>=1.44.0, <1.44.1
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- published6 Feb 2026
- disclosed3 Feb 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 3 Feb 2026
CVE-2025-61641 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade mediawiki/core to version 1.39.14, 1.43.4, 1.44.1 or higher.
Overview
mediawiki/core is a Free software wiki application developed by the Wikimedia Foundation and others.
Note: This package is not maintained on Packagist anymore, but newer releases exist.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the ApiQueryAllPages endpoint. An attacker can cause significant performance degradation and potential denial of service by sending API requests with the maxsize parameter set, resulting in extremely slow database queries.