Almost forgot: this is https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65042


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Max Semenik <maxsem.w...@gmail.com> wrote:

> During internal review, an XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerability was
> discovered in MobileFrontend extension.
> Due to an unneeded unescaping of already sanitized section titles, HTML
> inserted as plaintext into them was injected into DOM.
> While on ordinary page views only users who have intentionally enabled
> MobileFrontend's beta mode are in danger, it is possible to construct URLs
> that enable beta for every user following them. Another requirement for
> this vulnerability is screen witdth which must be at least 768 pixels.
>
> Affected versions include MobileFrontend for MediaWiki 1.23 (branch
> REL1_23, still in release candidate phase) and 1.24 (master). If you are
> running a 1.24 WMF branch earlier than wmf/1.24wmf3, please update to a
> later branch.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])
>



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Best regards,
Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])
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