wiki.wandboard.org hacked/spammed?

[martin]

Looking at http://wiki.wandboard.org/index.php/Main_Page
today (11.06./12.06.2014) there's something to read about
"Choosing the correct foods for your diet can be a challenge. [...]"
and many other strange non-wandboard content if I browse through
other "Random page"s. Since I had some problems with a MediaWiki
based installation myself in the past, this looks like another case
of a hacked webpage. Looking at
http://wiki.wandboard.org/index.php?tit ... on=history
the first spam edit seems to be at 01:07, 11 June 2014
Can someone check this and clean it up/do an update if necessary?

http://wiki.wandboard.org/index.php/Special:Version shows
MediaWiki 1.21.1
PHP 5.3.9-1~dotdeb.2 (apache2handler)
MySQL 5.0.51a-24+lenny5

[Tapani]

Thanks for letting us know.

It is the 2nd time now the bots have outsmarted us (had a spam explosion end of last year -- which we dealt with), and again the number of spam articles are exploding.
The spam edits started a few days ago, it seems like.

[passport]

Bots are still running wild. My suggestion, disable account creation, remove bot accounts and admins can create accounts to those who request such on this forum for example.

[synportack24]

Bots are still running wild. My suggestion, disable account creation, remove bot accounts and admins can create accounts to those who request such on this forum for example.

second that idea.

[Tapani]

Gosh.

We hope to move to a new server relatively soon, when we have to clean up the wiki etc.

This is one of the surprises to me from the whole WB project: how difficult it is to keep spammers out from a website.

[MichaelaJoy]

I would like to report spam posts.
Should I do this? And if so, is there a format that the site admins would like to see?

If it was up to me, I'd report the post with the word SPAM, so that staff can possibly examine and delete the offending posts "en-masse"
Just let me know. I'll be glad to help.