Translations:Help:OAuth/7/en

Secondly, each third-party website you authorize is only allowed to take the specific actions you authorized it to. This means that, for example, if you are an administrator and you authorize an application that asks only for "Basic rights", if the application tries to delete a page (which requires admin rights) then that wiki will reject the request. Previously, if an application had your password, you were relying on the assurances of the author of the application that it would not use your advanced rights.