[pmwiki-users] Security/information leak in PmWIki

Stefano steagl at people.it
Sat Feb 19 11:11:42 CST 2005


Il Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:18:24 -0600, "Patrick R. Michaud"
<pmichaud at pobox.com> scrive:

>On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:22:12PM -0500, Neil Herber wrote:
>> 1) If I search for "/", PmWiki gladly displays the group name and the name 
>> of all the pages it contains. Names like Private.Budget seem to attract 
>> attention.
>> 2) By using various search terms, I can glean some information from the 
>> supposedly private pages. For example, if I search for "Project X" and get 
>> a hit on the page "Private.Budget", that implies some discussion of the 
>> project in the budget.
>
>Remove the Private group from searches, by adding:
>
>   $SearchPatterns['default'][] = '!^Private\.!';
>   $SearchPatterns['all'][] = '!^Private\.!';
>   $SearchPatterns['normal'][] = '!^Private\.!';
>
>> 3) The AllRecentChanges page exposes all of the editing activity in the 
>> Private group.
>
>In local/Private.php, add
>
>   unset($RecentChangesFmt['Main.AllRecentChanges']);

How can i do it for only some specific pages in a category?
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