Package mediawiki: Information

    Binary package: mediawiki
    Version: 1.40.1-alt2
    Architecture: noarch
    Build time:  Feb 1, 2024, 07:55 PM
    Source package: mediawiki
    Category: Networking/WWW
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    License: GPLv2+
    Summary: A wiki engine, typical installation (php8.2 with Apache2 and MySQL support)
    Description: 
    MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia
    Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an excellent
    range of features and support for high-traffic websites using multiple
    servers
    
    This package supports wiki farms. Configure it through the web
    interface. Remember to secure the config dir after completing the
    configuration.
    
    This is a typical mediawiki installation (with Apache2 and MySQL support).
    
    Also you can install mediawiki-php8.0 (mediawiki-php8.1, mediawiki-php7)
    package to get all needed php requires.
    
    If you wish mediawiki without any php dependencies, install only mediawiki-common package.

    Maintainer: Vitaly Lipatov


    Last changed


    Oct. 21, 2023 Vitaly Lipatov 1.40.1-alt2
    - fix descriptions of php subpackages
    - restore .htaccess to disable php execution in data only dirs
    Oct. 16, 2023 Vitaly Lipatov 1.40.1-alt1
    - new version 1.40.1 (with rpmrb script)
    - build with php8.2 by default (ALT bug 48033)
    - (T333050, CVE-2023-45363) SECURITY: Fix infinite loop for self-redirects with variants conversion.
    - (T340217, CVE-2023-45359) SECURITY: Vector 2022: Numerous unescaped messages leading to potential XSS.
    - (T340220, CVE-2023-45361) SECURITY: Vector 2022: vector-intro-page message is assumed to yield a valid title.
    - (T340221, CVE-2023-45360) SECURITY: XSS via 'youhavenewmessagesmanyusers' and 'youhavenewmessages' messages.
    - (T341529, CVE-2023-45362) SECURITY: diff-multi-sameuser ("X intermediate revisions by the same user not shown") ignores username suppression.
    - (T341565, CVE-2023-3550) SECURITY: Stored XSS when uploading crafted XML file to Special:Upload (non standard configuration).
    Aug. 12, 2023 Vitaly Lipatov 1.40.0-alt1
    - new version 1.40.0 (with rpmrb script)
    - disable AutoReq
    - (T335612, CVE-2023-36674) SECURITY: Move badFile lookup to Linker.
    - (T335203, CVE-2023-29197) Upgrade guzzlehttp/psr7 to >= 1.9.1/2.4.5.
    - (T335612, CVE-2023-36674) Manualthumb bypasses badFile lookup.
    - (T332889, CVE-2023-36675) XSS in BlockLogFormatter due to unsafe message use.