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FYI: Lemmy.world and other instances were hacked. Beehaw.org took itself down to mitigate risks (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/meta@programming.dev
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Drawing attention on this instance so Admins are aware and can address the propagating exploit.

EDIT: Found more info about the patch.

A more thorough recap of the issue.

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.

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[–] 3 points 3 years ago

yeah, kind of insane the grudge people hold about it, people like that user spread all these spooky posts about how the devs are communists coming to kill you or something and that's why you should use kbin (I'm only slightly exaggerating, the way these people post about it makes it sound like the devs are directly involved with like human rights abuses or something lol)

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