Backport workflow-hardening fix (excessive-permissions) to 5 release branches

[CharlieMCY]

Summary

The default branch already hardened .github/workflows/nightly.yml against the issue(s) below, but 5 release branches still carry it. This proposes the same, minimal, scanner-verified fix for each.

What's flagged (by zizmor)

• excessive-permissions — workflow/job granted broader permissions than needed

Already resolved on the default branch in:

• 74a2b0a

Affected release branches (5)

• release-intellij-1.13 (still present as of HEAD 028d24bf)
• release-intellij-1.12 (still present as of HEAD f5c2e562)
• release-vsce-1.28 (still present as of HEAD 99e0004b)
• release-vsce-1.26 (still present as of HEAD 5d195457)
• release-vsce-1.25 (still present as of HEAD fc89e332)

Suggested per-branch patches

Each diff below was checked locally with zizmor and actionlint: the flagged finding(s) are cleared on the affected construct and no new lint or security findings are introduced. (Whitespace is normalized; only security-relevant lines change.)

release-intellij-1.13 — excessive-permissions

File .github/workflows/nightly.yml; suggested edits:

• • jobs.$J.permissions.contents = 'write'

--- a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
@@ -18,3 +18,5 @@
         uses: EndBug/latest-tag@latest
         with:
           ref: nightly
+    permissions:
+      contents: write

release-intellij-1.12 — excessive-permissions

File .github/workflows/nightly.yml; suggested edits:

• • jobs.$J.permissions.contents = 'write'

--- a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
@@ -18,3 +18,5 @@
         uses: EndBug/latest-tag@latest
         with:
           ref: nightly
+    permissions:
+      contents: write

release-vsce-1.28 — excessive-permissions

File .github/workflows/nightly.yml; suggested edits:

• • jobs.$J.permissions.contents = 'write'

--- a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
@@ -18,3 +18,5 @@
         uses: EndBug/latest-tag@latest
         with:
           ref: nightly
+    permissions:
+      contents: write

release-vsce-1.26 — excessive-permissions

File .github/workflows/nightly.yml; suggested edits:

• • jobs.$J.permissions.contents = 'write'

--- a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
@@ -18,3 +18,5 @@
         uses: EndBug/latest-tag@latest
         with:
           ref: nightly
+    permissions:
+      contents: write

release-vsce-1.25 — excessive-permissions

File .github/workflows/nightly.yml; suggested edits:

• • jobs.$J.permissions.contents = 'write'

--- a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
@@ -18,3 +18,5 @@
         uses: EndBug/latest-tag@latest
         with:
           ref: nightly
+    permissions:
+      contents: write

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Happy to open pull requests instead if that's preferred.