What are Mediawiki views on providing links in their Extension pages
which point to an virus/malware infected site? This Dynamic Page List
3rd party extension,
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_(third-party) is
flagged as a major security risk by Mediawiki. Which oddly is proven
because the links on the Extension page to the DPL 3rd Party's Manual,
off the Mediawiki site, is infected with a virus! O My virus software
blocked it, AVG's online scanner shows it, and the site is on a
blacklist on another online URL virus scanning tool. I made an edit
noting the links are infected, but it is waiting for approval from a
Mediawiki admin.
Of course, I am pointing this out to a wiki admin who is using this
Extension on a documentation wiki to drop this version of DPL and use
the Foundation's version, but I think this brings up a discussion about
Extensions flagged as a security risk and why the extension's code is
still available for download? Not only from SVN, but older versions from
the infected site itself. The last update to the extension was
10-1-2009, so I would say it has been abandoned by the developers. If
this is the case, should the download links be removed?
Tom
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