Author: asokratis
Description:
searching on the wiki with characters such as ")" or "(" (maybe there are more?) will show a page with the following:
Database Error.
A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software.
Examples of Search:
test)
test(
If a ticket for this has already been open, please close this ticket and refer to me where the issue so I can be monitoring it.
Version: 1.23.1
Severity: normal
searching on the wiki
Which of those few hundreds? Please provide exact steps to reproduce. :)
asokratis wrote:
Haha :)
I am not good at searching, but I stumbled on this:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23108
and I am going to quote this
"Some quick testing indicates this is very likely to be caused by a literal '(' in the $terms parameter, which is thrown into a regex unescaped."
Notice that he says literal '('? That is what we share in common.
Replication steps:
1)On a configured MediaWiki, on the upper right corner, there is a search textbox
2)Type something that includes the literal ')' (Example: "test)") or the literal '(' (Example: "test(")
3)The following error shows when searching such values from point 2:
"Database Error.
A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software."
asokratis wrote:
I also am not competent on how mediawiki works. I am more of a normal user than a heavy user knowing the internals behind. I hope my bug post helps and if not, hopefully it is referred to the correct # issue.
(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #1)
Which of those few hundreds? Please provide exact steps to reproduce. :)
Oh sorry, I didn't realize that you refer to your own hosted instance.
Search is about to get replaced by LuceneSearch so this is probably low priority currently...