[om-infra] Wiki page with spam or...

Raphaël Jadot rj at hodo.fr
Sat Feb 20 15:07:23 EST 2016


I remember I had allowed the creation of the user with thi internal form of MW

Maybe we should send a warn first?

20.02.2016, 20:39, "Jean-Claude Vanier" <jclvanier at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> -- the linked site is commercial and has nothing to see with us.
> -- the wiki page seems to have been modified on 1 February 2016‎ for
> the last time
> -- MandrMan seems to have been created on 28 December 2015 at 23:14
> -- He has no special permission
> -- His password hash is strange:
> :pbkdf2:sha256:10000:128:9ee6ECosuGslxFuL3LN9Hg==:TivWzleamusf3TbESjAq4yprpTr2auoXOuPOevDtos4hioBRJ9KRARDmoiVQ3J0QrFSiqVYUX73UdCPpoHp4khQoTp+P+wp1CothwoTDoxd32gX6sdh4Lw2sxn9MlUAhCwFdP7MpxaseSCNeRnFf1XZOwrWoxjhWw8QPlPkmBz8=
> -- his email is: jordan.sanders at devart.com
>
> ==>
> We could:
> -- safely delete the page
> -- safely delete this "user"
> We should also analyze the logs to get a clue on how the registration
> has been done. My guess is that he simply used a direct link like this
> one:
> index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup
> that enables anyone to register. But maybehe used other parameters
> that give the right to edit a page. I didn't test yet.
>
> ==> though the release we use (1.25.3) is maintained till June, we
> should upgrade media wiki to the current version : 1.26.2
>
> 2016-02-20 16:10 GMT+01:00 Wayne Sallee <Wayne at waynesallee.com>:
>>  The information was also not put in any of the sub-categories, which make it
>>  look like a bot.
>>
>>  Wayne Sallee
>>  Wayne at WayneSallee.com
>>
>>  On 02/19/2016 08:45 AM, rugyada wrote:
>>>  Hello,
>>>
>>>  Please have a look to our wiki page here
>>>  https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/Systemconnectivity
>>>
>>>  I'm wondering if it's spam or something useful (uhm... this linked
>>>  site has a big "BUY" button which made me mistrustful:P )
>>
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Raphaël Jadot



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