https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67533

--- Comment #5 from Jeroen De Dauw <jeroen_ded...@yahoo.com> ---
The MediaWiki code is not reusable - it's bound to the rest of the MediaWiki
framework. Both the code itself and the things it's bound to have serious
design issues, little test coverage and low quality overall.

Those issues are not present in Doctrine DBAL or Symfony Console. Furthermore,
both these components are relied on by literally thousands of others, including
some of the most popular tools and frameworks in the PHP world. This means that
their code is looked at by more developers, and used by more users, then the
equivalent MediaWiki code.

Given that, I'm not sure it makes sense to do a real security review of these
components. Is WMF doing security reviews of other tools it uses, such as
Lucene? Of course it's always better to do a review then not, yet there are
limited resources. So does it really make sense to spend them on this?

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