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Bug 27261 - Disable passing query strings through Special:Random
Disable passing query strings through Special:Random
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Special pages (Other open bugs)
1.17.x
All All
: High major (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2011-02-08 18:25 UTC by Gavia immer
Modified: 2011-02-09 10:47 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Gavia immer 2011-02-08 18:25:22 UTC 
1.17 has a new feature that allows tacking a query string onto the usual Special:Random syntax, resulting in loading an URL that combines the randomly-selected page name and the query string. This feature is not at all well thought-out; it can be used to construct an auto-vandalism URL to post anywhere you like on the Web, resulting in distributed mass-vandalism. Likewise a smart vandal can copy-and paste a handcrafted URL many times to vandalize many pages quickly. There are other bad things you can automate with this as well. I'm not going to post an example URL here, but any developer should feel free to mail me if you want one. Please disable this.
Comment 1 Sam Reed (reedy) 2011-02-09 10:40:26 UTC 
See r65054
Comment 2 Bryan Tong Minh 2011-02-09 10:45:00 UTC 
All actions that could lead to vandalism require an edittoken. There is no way that from outside the wiki you can directly edit a page or something like that.
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