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deb tankersley
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Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation

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From: Max Semenik <maxsem.w...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, May 2, 2017 at 6:51 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Security announcement: XSS when Kartographer is used
with JsonConfig
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org>, MediaWiki
announcements and site admin list <mediawik...@lists.wikimedia.org>


A stored XSS vulnerability was discovered when Kartographer is configured
to receive map data from wiki pages via JsonConfig. Unless your wiki has
both extensions installed and JsonConfig is configured to provide map data,
it is safe. Otherwise, you're encouraged to upgrade both extensions
IMMEDIATELY.

Affected versions:
* Versions for latest MediaWiki release, 1.28, don't support the
aforementioned functionality and therefore are not vulnerable.
* Versions for pre-release 1.29 and alpha 1.30 are affected and have fixes
applied in source control.

Upgrading:
You can download latest sources from Git[1] or ExtensionDistributor[2]

See this ticket for more information:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163166

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[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git#Using_
Git_to_download_MediaWiki_extensions
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor

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