[Wikidata-l] [Security] The wbmergeitems API now requires a token: Update your Wikibase installations or tools

2015-03-23 Thread hoo
Hi, I just wanted to quickly let you know that on Friday Lucie discovered that it's possible to use the wbmergeitems API without passing an edit token to it, also it was possible to use it via GET requests. Not requiring a token made that module vulnerable to CSRF attacks. We opened a security

[Wikidata-l] Using mw.wikibase.getEntity? Read on!

2015-02-20 Thread hoo
Hi Everyone, We provide an interface for the Scribunto extension (Lua modules) in Wikibase for quite some time now. Our integration with Scribunto was very basic initially and not future proof enough for things like arbitrary access or very big items. Due to that we at some point deprecated the o