Vulnerability · Published Apr 7, 2026 · Assigned by wikimedia-foundation

CVE-2026-39934Growth Experiments ReassignMenteesJob runs as an infinite loop

Medium 6.9

In plain English

A medium-severity infinite loop in Mediawiki - GrowthExperiments Extension from The Wikimedia Foundation. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 27% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)6.9Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 73.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Loop with unreachable exit condition ('infinite loop') vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - GrowthExperiments Extension allows Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions. This issue was remediated only on the `master` branch.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - GrowthExperiments Extension 1.451.441.430 – before 1.43

Weakness: CWE-835 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L

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