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Hello

A bunch of pages with random content have been created on my wiki website.

I run MediaWiki 1.35.0. I suppose it is an unstable an unsecured version ? I should upgrade to 1.37 ?

And how to delete these pages ? Go into database through phpmyadmin ?

Thanks a lot

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This is not hacking if you configured your website to allow anyone on the internet to edit, and then some people did.

No, only registered people can edit. And the content is random.

(Yes, 1.35.0 is ancient and outdated. Please keep software updated.)

Any idea to purge quickly unwanted content ? There is almost 1000 pages.

Have your tried the Extension:Nuke mentioned in the above provided link?

Note that sometimes hacking happens because people leave the old installation path still accessible from the Internet, when upgrading mediawiki (for example, at /wiki_old/ and somehow spambots and hackers know about that URL, which probably contains the real vulnerabilities and not the 1.35 version (which is still supported if you use 1.35.5)