The following announcement details a breaking change to the API. The change is already live on WMF wikis.
- Carl ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tim Starling <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:03 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki security update: 1.15.3 and 1.16.0beta2 To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is a security and bugfix release of MediaWiki 1.15.3 and MediaWiki 1.16.0beta2. MediaWiki was found to be vulnerable to login CSRF. An attacker who controls a user account on the target wiki can force the victim to log in as the attacker, via a script on an external website. If the wiki is configured to allow user scripts, say with "$wgAllowUserJs = true" in LocalSettings.php, then the attacker can proceed to mount a phishing-style attack against the victim to obtain their password. Even without user scripting, this attack is a potential nuisance, and so all public wikis should be upgraded if possible. Our fix includes a breaking change to the API login action. Any clients using it will need to be updated. We apologise for making such a disruptive change in a minor release, but we feel that security is paramount. For more details see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23076 ********************************************************************** 1.15.3 ********************************************************************** Full release notes: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_15_3/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-1.15.3.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.15.2), without interface text: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-1.15.3.patch.gz Interface text changes: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-i18n-1.15.3.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-1.15.3.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-1.15.3.patch.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-i18n-1.15.3.patch.gz.sig Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html ********************************************************************** 1.16.0beta2 ********************************************************************** Full release notes: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_16_0beta2/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.0beta2.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.16.0beta1), without interface text: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.0beta2.patch.gz Interface text changes: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-i18n-1.16.0beta2.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.0beta2.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.0beta2.patch.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-i18n-1.16.0beta2.patch.gz.sig Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
