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WackoWiki is a small, lightweight, handy, expandable, multilingual Wiki-engine based on Wakka Wiki written in PHP, which uses MySQL to store pages. WackoWiki has an WYSIWYG-like editor, easy installer, many localizations, email notification on changes/comments, several cache levels, design themes (skins) support, XHTML compliance, page rights (ACLs), and page comments. WackoWiki is licensed under BSD. WakkaWiki is a very small wiki engine, that is very easy to install and maintain. ... PHP is a popular open-source, reflective programming language used mainly for developing server-side applications and dynamic web content, and more recently, other software. ... MySQL logo MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL (Structured Query Language) Database Management System (DBMS) with an estimated six million installations. ... [[Hola: Este sera un encuentro, especial. ... Extensible HyperText Markup Language, or XHTML, is a markup language that has the same expressive possibilities as HTML, but a stricter syntax. ... The access control list (ACL) is a concept in computer security used to enforce privilege separation. ... BSD redirects here; for other uses see BSD (disambiguation). ...


WackoWiki is developed by Russian programmers, but it is not a Russian-only engine. At the moment it supports RU, EE, EN, ES, DE, FR, NL, IT, PL, PT, MD, and BG languages. WackoWiki was forked from the famous WakkaWiki engine in 2003 when Hendrik Mans and Carlo Zotman, the original developers, abandoned it. WakkaWiki is a very small wiki engine, that is very easy to install and maintain. ... 2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


WackoWiki allows the use of full HTML capabilities, and uses the SafeHTML parser (written by the same developers) to strip down all potentially dangerous content (JavaScript etc.), which may cause XSS vulnerabilities. In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages and other information viewable in a browser. ... JavaScript, in its modern form, is an object-based scripting programming language based on the concept of prototypes. ... Cross site scripting (XSS) is a type of computer security exploit where information from one context, where it is not trusted, can be inserted into another context, where it is. ...


Developers of WackoWiki also created WikiEdit, a JavaScript WYSIWYG-like editor with shortcuts and toolbar support. WikiEdit also supports autoindenting (and increments in ordered lists) — a unique feature for a web-based editor. [[Hola: Este sera un encuentro, especial. ...


WackoWiki is widely used in Russia as a wiki-engine, and by many IT companies as a lightweight CMS and a Knowledge Management System and shares several modules, developers and a bugtracker with the NPJ engine. CMS can stand for an organization: German Content Management System Corporation Canadian Mathematical Society, a professional society for mathematician|mathematicians Centre for Mathematical Studies, part of the University of Cambridge Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, the largest school district in North Carolina Church Mission Society, a voluntary mission organisation established in 1799... A Knowledge Management System (KMS) is a distributed hypermedia system for managing knowledge in organisations. ...


The latest version is R4.2, released on 27 March 2005. March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (87th in Leap years). ... 2005(MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Wacko features

  • all features from Wakka Wiki, including installer & upgrader (because it is really a fork from it)
  • Designed for speed and extensibility
  • Quick and easy installation
  • Integrated user management
  • Access control through per-page access control lists
  • Integrated page-commenting functionality
  • Full revision control, of course
  • Easily customizable
  • Supports multiple sites running off the same Wakka installation
  • clusters (subpages) & relative addressing
  • page watching & email notification on changes/comments (simple diff included in email)
  • enhanced What You Think Is What You Get editing — table markup, Open Wiki-compatible markup
  • Links can be Camel Case or Free Links
  • powerful diff between revisions
  • several levels of caching (backlinks, pages) bring significant performance gain compared to Wakka
  • automatic Table Of Contents generation
  • on-the-fly correction of punctuation typos & special characters (Typografica project)
  • design themes (skins) support.
  • many more enhancements

WakkaWiki is a very small wiki engine, that is very easy to install and maintain. ... A fork on a saucer A fork is an implement with a handle on one end and tines on the other; it is used for pricking, to hold or transfer objects, predominantly food in cooking and eating. ... Revision control is the management of multiple revisions of the same unit of information. ... CamelCase is the practice of writing compound words or phrases where the words are joined without spaces, and each word is capitalized within the compound. ...

See also

Bold text --219. ... The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of wiki software. ...

External links

  • WackoWiki
  • WackoFeatures – more here

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ISS X-Force Database: wackowiki-xss(19885): WackoWiki cross-site scripting (307 words)
WackoWiki is a freely available PHP-based wiki engine running on Microsoft Windows and Unix-based operating systems.
WackoWiki version R4 and possibly earlier versions are vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input.
A remote attacker could embed malicious script in a URL request, which would be executed, once the link is clicked, in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site.
ISS X-Force Database: wackowiki-text-search-xss(16878): WackoWiki text search cross-site scripting (285 words)
WackoWiki is a freely available PHP-based wiki engine.
WackoWiki version 3.x prior to R4 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input.
A remote attacker could embed malicious script in a specially-crafted HTTP code in a text search, which would be executed in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site, once the link is clicked.
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