On 10/26/07, Edward Chernenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  2 SELECT page_namespace FROM page WHERE page_title=? ORDER BY page_namespace
> (this list may be written into mysql table).
>
> User can inflict query by accessing some script common for all
> queries, which would find query by it's number (query_id) and print
> HTML form on GET (with textfields instead of placeholders) or results
> on POST.

Permitting anonymous users to scan the page table seems like a pretty
good DoS vector for whatever server is being sacrificed for this.

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