On May 16, 2012, at 12:03 PM, Daniel Friesen wrote:
JSON callbacks can be initiated by 3rd party websites. Allowing json callbacks to act as the logged in user would allow any website on the internet to extract information that is supposed to be private and potentially make unauthorized write actions on the wiki.
Private wiki content could be extracted.
Yep! Still can on some browsers.
Articles could be edited in your name.
I thought http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Edit_token protects against this as it is required for an edit: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit
And up till recently it would have also been possible to make some preferences changes that would effectively let someone take over your whole account.
I didn't know OptionsToken is new http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Options :-(
Cool! Learn something new about mediawiki every day.
Take care,
terry