Even ignoring the security issues, if one of your users makes a typo, they take down the site and they cannot revert because the site is then down.
From a security prespective, this is equivalent to giving your users shell access to your server. They can run any arbitrary program, do anything, insert backdoors, etc. Additionally this setup requires the web user to have write access to php enabled web directories which is also bad practise. -- bawolff On Saturday, July 1, 2017, Legoktm <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/01/2017 03:16 PM, Jean Valjean wrote: >> I want to let some of my administrators (in the wizards group) edit >> LocalSettings.php, so I used this snippet, which allows them to make >> changes by editing the Project:Shared_config.php page. Then I protected the >> page so that only wizards can edit it. Do you think this presents any >> security issues? > > Yes, it presents a huge security issue. Anyone who can modify your > LocalSettings.php can execute arbitrary PHP code. They could see any > private data in your database, easily get passwords, or even potentially > give themselves server access. > > I would highly recommend NOT doing this. > > -- Legoktm > > _______________________________________________ > 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
