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Bug 20967 - API action=edit allows creation of illegal page names

Summary:	API action=edit allows creation of illegal page names

Status: RESOLVED FIXED Product: MediaWiki Classification: Unclassified Component: API (Other open bugs) Version: unspecified Hardware: All All Importance: Normal normal (vote) Target Milestone: --- Assigned To: Roan Kattouw URL: Whiteboard: Keywords: patch Depends on: Blocks: 16633   Show dependency tree / graph		Reported: 2009-10-02 19:22 UTC by Jimmy Xu Modified: 2009-11-06 14:44 UTC (History) CC List: 6 users (show) Bryan.TongMinh liangent roan.kattouw sam soxred93 vasilvv See Also: Web browser: --- Mobile Platform: --- Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

Attachments If the title is "external" interwiki, die with invalidtitle (523 bytes, patch) 2009-11-06 14:17 UTC, Sam Reed (reedy) Details Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Description Jimmy Xu 2009-10-02 19:22:57 UTC While submitting "title=wikt:en:Wikipedia:Sandbox" via the API, the page was created and shown as [[en:Wikipedia:Sandbox]], and cannot be deleted in normal ways except use the API again. Maybe these "interwiki" request should be denied? Regards. Comment 1 Sam Reed (reedy) 2009-11-06 14:17:31 UTC Created attachment 6754 [details] If the title is "external" interwiki, die with invalidtitle Deny editing (and therefore creation) of bugs with interwiki in title Comment 2 Roan Kattouw 2009-11-06 14:44:38 UTC Patch committed in r58649.