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Application Security Review Request : Foundation-supported WordPress installations
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Description

Project Information

  • Name of tool/project: Diff, Wikimedia Foundation site, Wikimedia Endowment
  • Project home page: diff.wikimedia.org, wikimediafoundation.org, wikimediaendowment.org
  • Name of team requesting review: Communications
  • Primary contact: Chris Koerner, Sara Campos
  • Target date for deployment: Already in production
  • Link to code repository / patchset:

Publicly accessible repos, mirrored from prod:

Description of the tool/project:
WordPress-based sites managed by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Description of how the tool will be used at WMF:
Various external and community-facing platforms for communication.

Dependencies

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Has this project been reviewed before?

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Working test environment

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Access to dev environments can be provided.

Post-deployment

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*Sara Campos, Chris Koerner

Since launching the Communications department-supported WordPress websites numerous years ago, we have made many alterations in configuration changes to the sites. Including consolidating many of our security settings into a single WordPress plug-in that is deployed across all sites. A recent, rather benign, issue (T422587) came up that indicated it a misconfiguration on our security settings. In light of this, and given that the landscape of the Internet has changed over the last 5 to 7 years*, we’d like to ask the security team to review our current WordPress-based sites and provide an assessment of their settings.

*Not to mention numerous updates to code via Plugins and configuration changes that have not been reviewed with a security-minded eye.

Details

Risk Rating
Low