Download MediaWiki 1.5.8/1.4.15

MediaWiki is a Wiki engine, released under the GPL license, that can be used to create and manage content. It is used, among others, for the websites of the Wikimedia Foundation, such as Wikipedia, Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikibooks and Wikiquote. The appearance can be completely adjusted to your own wishes with the help of skins this page are some examples of different skins. Version 1.5.8 and 1.4.15 are now available with the following release notes:

Version 1.5.8:

MediaWiki 1.5.8 is a security and bug fix maintenance release. A bug in decoding of certain encoded links could allow injection of raw HTML into page output; this could potentially lead to XSS attacks. Some minor UI fixes were also made.

changes:

• (bug 5180) User login page shows inappropriate email blurb
• Add the “AbortNewAccount” hook on account creation; see hooks.txt for more info.
• Update default “exporttext” to reflect that Special:Import exists
• Add links to useful material to the default main page content
• Fix fragment HTML injection

Version 1.4.15:

MediaWiki 1.4.15 is a security maintenance release. A bug in decoding of certain encoded links could allow injection of raw HTML into page output; this could potentially lead to XSS attacks. Additionally, this release may display more correctly in IE7 betas.

changes:

• (bug 4824) IE7 beta 2 broke compatibility with PNG logo workarounds, and seems to work ok with other bits. No longer including the IE workarounds JavaScript for IE 7 and above.
• Fix fragment HTML injection