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

Github Issue created here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1895

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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Compromised in what way? Can you post proof?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Could you spoiler that weirdo image

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    How do you spoiler an image in Lemmy markdown?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It works like this

    spoiler test


    Test

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I can't get it to work on an image. Is it 4 underscores?

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    Are you on an app? It’s this symbol on lemmy

    Looks like this if you need to do it yourself

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yea, I switched to this alt. It appears to be one of the assistant admins accts. Seems like an old fashioned anon prank, to me, they're mainly just trying to make stuff offensive and redirect people to lemonparty.

    So, y'know, old school.

    I don't know if any data is actually in danger, but I doubt it. I don't see why assistant admins would need access to it.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    All the bean memes are in danger! On a serious note, old-skool or not, it's a huge loss of trust in something the community-at-large is excited to see replace reddit.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    On the other hand, look at where we are. This is proof that one hack can't take down Lemmy.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    True that. If you look at posts on lemmy.world though, it's clear their users (which is like 50% of Lemmy) have zero clue they're defederated ATM, and probably many that don't know it's compromised.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago

    Federation and decentralization are not Web 2.0 concepts. Just like people who first learned what a tweet and a follow were and all the other concepts of those social media platforms, they'll learn the new paradigm. Or they won't and we'll stick to 2.0 platforms.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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