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PSA: Lemmy.world has been compromised! (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by G59@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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FYI!!! In case you start getting re-directed to porn sites.

Maybe the admin got hacked?

edit: lemmy.blahaj.zone has also been hacked. beehaw.org is also down, possibly intentionally by their admins until the issue is fixed.

Post discussing the point of vulnerability: https://lemmy.ml/post/1896249

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[โ€“] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

GitHub PR fixing the bug: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1897/files

If your instance has custom emojis defined, this is exploitable everywhere Markdown is available. It is NOT restricted to admins, but can be used to steal an admin's JWT, which then lets the attacker get into that admin's account which can then spread the exploit further by putting it somewhere where it's rendered on every single page and then deface the site.

If your instance doesn't have any custom emojis, you are safe, the exploit requires custom emojis to trigger the bad code branch.

[โ€“] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I see a new lemmy-ui docker image has been pushed an hour ago, tagged 0.18.2-rc.1. Anyone know if it fixed the issue?

Edit: yep, it's fixed: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/commit/e80bcf53acb8ce25ed5ef6b7eb16b90f0b07e8f1

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