Re: a worm for mediaWiki??

[Michael Rice <michael () riceclan org>]

"vitamona" wrote:

> Hi,
> i've noticed a strange thing on MediaWiki that i used sometimes.
> The highlight word on the varius articoles on mediaWiki was replace
> with strange string like this:
> NaodW29-pre1dc0e53c28ac067d00000016
>
> For look this on google see here:
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=NaodW29&btnG=Search
>
> Is this an 0days mass exploit??
>
> Bye
It looks like strings starting with NaodW29 are being used internally by 
the wiki engine as part of it's normal business.  Several posts from 
Nov/Dec 2005 suggest that certain changes may have caused the wiki 
engine to expose these internal strings.  It appears, at least on the 
surface, to be a simple bug.