MediaWiki-announce October 2021

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MediaWiki 1.37.0-rc.0 is ready for testing

by Sam Reed

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.37.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for 1.37.x. Download links are at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. This is not a final release, and should not be used for production websites. Known issues are tracked in Phabricator on the release workboard [1]. As with every release of MediaWiki, a large number of changes have landed in the last six months (over 1700 commits since 1.36.0 was cut), and you should read over the preliminary release notes as part of assuring yourself of areas that may have issues with your configuration, your skins, and/or your extensions. As always, please try out the release candidate in a test environment and do report any issues that you discover. Please use the #MW-1.37-Release [2] tag in Phabricator when reporting issues specific to this release, to make sure that we find them as quickly as possible. It is expected that MediaWiki 1.37 will become final in November 2021, though the date may slip if blockers are identified. Preliminary release notes: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/REL1_37/RELEASE-NOTES-1.37 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.37 Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html Open Bugs: [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4928/ Bug report form: [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.37-… ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.0.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.0.zip Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.0.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.0.zip GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.0.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.0.zi… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.0.tar.gz.… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.0.zip.sig Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html

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Subject: MediaWiki Extensions and Skins Security Release Supplement (1.31.16/1.35.4/1.36.2)

by Maryum Styles

Greetings- With the security/maintenance release of MediaWiki 1.31.16/1.35.4/1.36.2 [0], we would also like to provide this supplementary announcement of MediaWiki extensions and skins with now-public Phabricator tasks, security patches and backports [1]: == DataDump == + (T286376, CVE-2021-32774) - Potential CSRF generating dumps < https://github.com/miraheze/DataDump/commit/67a82b76e186925330b89ace9c5fd89… > == GlobalWatchlist == + (T286385, CVE-2021-42046) - XSS in GlobalWatchlist <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ib7f9b009730fe0df283cec1169f84c7a83a58b1d> <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Id2204fb5afe591d63764466de35ac0aaa5999983> == Translate == + (T286884, CVE-2021-42049) - Oversight action not reversible in translated page <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I4d95220ef414337147235f7ebedc9b945c3348e3 > == GrowthExperiments == + (T289063, CVE-2021-42047) - Mentor dashboard: Permanent XSS exploitable by wiki admins < https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments/+/7… > == GrowthExperiments == + (T289064, CVE-2021-42048) - Newcomer homepage Impact module: Permanent XSS exploitable by admins for new accounts <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Iaa90a8976834d70caad592e9d1b18510318db537 > == SecurePoll == + (T289385, CVE-2021-42045) - Modified HTTP headers allow XSS <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I4f04083cd00884d3b85245460774c81c7639a578> == Growth Experiments == + (T289408, CVE-2021-42044) - Permanent XSS exploitable by wiki admins (client-side part) <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I858d55fb2eca9b50ac6ef5a6f2a7b2784f0fa0d6> == Growth Experiments == + (T290692, CVE-2021-42042) - Permanent XSS exploitable by wiki admins in SpecialEditGrowthConfig <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ibeb13d032ca044af53f6b2334e27b6b97b6f4e9f> == Loops == + (T287347, CVE-2021-42040) - Loops can cause php-fpm exhaustion <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I0caf6f129f94612b5bcf406a171aa5ffedea1f80> == CentralAuth == + (T291696, CVE-2021-42041) - XSS vulnerability in the 'setchange' log <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I7aeaa6e4de5ccaa5eeb6bf4fb00c96b01d5fea35> == MediaSearch == + (T291600, CVE-2021-42043) - XSS on Special:MediaSearch <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/If64eb5842237c92290d07ebc3fe14710d9de3fc2> The Wikimedia Security Team recommends updating these extensions and/or skins to the current master branch or relevant, supported release branch [2] as soon as possible. Some of the referenced Phabricator tasks above _may_ still be private. Unfortunately, when security issues are reported, sometimes sensitive information is exposed and since Phabricator is historical, we cannot make these tasks public without exposing this sensitive information. If you have any additional questions or concerns regarding this update, please feel free to contact security(a)wikimedia.org or file a security task within Phabricator [3]. [0] https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce@lists.wikime… [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285414 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reporting_security_bugs

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MediaWiki-announce October 2021