High (7.5). EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 77% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)