Just be careful about the 'MediaWiki:' restricted namespace pages. Those can have things like JavaScript which MediaWiki often deliberately does not escape.
On 2 November 2014 23:20, Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 02 Nov 2014 23:53:28 +0100, Boris Steipe <[email protected]> > wrote: > > If I understand the Drupal advisory correctly, backdoors could have been >> installed in the database. I don't know nearly enough about this, but I >> suspect this could mean that a backdoor could reappear on the new machine >> if I were to dump my current Wiki tables from the old machine and reinstall >> them on the new machine. Is this correct? And if so, what would the best >> strategy be for recovery? I hope this can be done more efficiently than >> copy/pasting Wikitext. >> > > If you want to be extra paranoid, and you only care about the contents of > pages (and possibly their earlier versions) and none of all the boring > extra data, then you can export and import the contents of wiki pages. This > should always be safe, as MediaWiki assumes that all page text is hostile > user input and always parses and escapes everything that needs it. > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_XML_dumps > > -- > Bartosz Dziewoński > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
