An issue was discovered in ApiPageSet.php in MediaWiki before 1.35.12, 1.36.x through 1.39.x before 1.39.5, and 1.40.x before 1.40.1. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (unbounded loop and RequestTimeoutException) when querying pages redirected to other variants with redirects and converttitles set.
{ "cpes": [ "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.40.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "severity": "High" }