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Bug 28449 - Unauthorised access to transwiki import
Unauthorised access to transwiki import
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Export/Import (Other open bugs)
1.16.x
All All
: Normal normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2011-04-07 03:27 UTC by Tim Starling
Modified: 2012-04-12 13:55 UTC (History)
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Description Tim Starling 2011-04-07 03:27:45 UTC 
MediaWiki developer Happy-Melon discovered that the transwiki import feature ($wgImportSources) neglected to perform access control checks on form submission. Access control checks were only done before form display. Thus, a specially constructed POST request could be used to perform transwiki import without proper authorisation.

Transwiki import is not enabled by default. When it is enabled, it allows wiki pages to be copied from the wikis listed in $wgImportSources in LocalSettings.php.
Comment 1 Happy-melon 2011-04-07 10:13:50 UTC 
This was fixed in r85005 and r85099; it has been ported to the 1.17, 1.17wmf1 and 1.16 branches.
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