At one point they were briefly enabled in dev trunk and immediately  
disabled for safety. :) never been enabled in production.

-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)

On Mar 26, 2009, at 18:30, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical 
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Ilmari Karonen <[email protected]>  
> wrote:
>> Hmm, you're right, it does -- I didn't realize the title was used
>> unescaped.  That looks uncomfortably close to an XSS vulnerability
>> anyway.  I'd feel a lot more comfortable with a htmlspecialchars() in
>> there.  (Didn't we use to allow "<" in titles not so very long ago?
>> Certainly the feature that disallows HTML entities in titles is  
>> fairly
>> recent.)
>
> I'm pretty sure we haven't allowed < in titles for a long time.
>
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