Ahh makes sense. The docs are a little confusing. I forgot that you can do 
action=tokens without CSRF protection.


On May 16, 2012, at 7:46 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote:

> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Terry Chay <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I thought http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Edit_token protects against 
>> this as it is required for an edit: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit
>> 
> Not if you can read the data using the Object/Array constructor hacks
> you described. The potential for data leakage includes token leakage,
> and once you get the API to leak a token you can create a hidden form
> on the page that POSTs all the right data (including the token) to the
> action=edit API and call .submit() on the form.
> 
> Roan
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