Are you the one running the "writefreely blogs" bot, aka writefreely@poliverso.org? Because there are tons of English accounts full of links that post nonstop.

And indeed, that account republishing posts from some Italian instances had a staggering amount of spam.

This is due to a very serious vulnerability that hasn't yet been patched by the developers, but which has (obviously) started to be exploited on a large scale.

I've notified all the Italian administrators of @writefreely instances, but I'm having some difficulty contacting the foreign ones.

These are the ones with the most users:

https://write.otter.homes/read
https://infosec.press/read
https://blog.liberta.vip/read
https://write.tedomum.net/read
https://val-vgms.gay/read
https://bolha.blog/read

But there are many others.

Is there anyone among you who can try this or at least spread the word?

Note: As I mentioned, the vulnerability has been known for a long time and is currently being exploited on a large scale.

https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/issues/1649

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago

So it was fixed two weeks ago, but they haven't released the fixed version, and their last release was... 11 months ago???

[–] marud@piefed.marud.fr 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Holy shit this is so bad.
I'm gonna shut my own instance down RN and see for something else

[–] macfranc@poliversity.it 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

@marud

PS: Fabio, who reported this technical solution to address the issue, is not only a former contributor to Wrirefreely but also the developer of this new platform.

If yours is a personal instance, you could replace WF with this new Madblog:

https://github.com/blacklight/madblog

[–] marud@piefed.marud.fr 1 points 5 hours ago

RN I blocked access to the signup location on nginx Should be ok for now, but I'll take a look at madblog

Thanks for the tip

[–] JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 hours ago

"Use WriteFreely instead of Plume," they said.

"It's in active development," they said.

Then again, if this was to happen to Plume (and I wouldn't be surprised if it was), it'd take the devs until the 2030s to fix it.