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ATTENTION LEMMY ADMINS: XSS VULNERABILITY NEEDS PATCHING

Details:
https://lemmy.world/post/1293336

Lemmy.world was hacked and most Lemmy servers are still vulnerable to the exploit:
https://lemmy.world/post/1290412

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[–] alternative_be@todon.nl 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@liaizon @fediverse I only joined a few days ago. I suppose this means I have to alter my password?

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The attack shouldn't have exposed passwords or hashes, only the JWT cookie. The secret on the server has been changed so all old cookies should no longer work.

There is a very small possibility that email address may have been able to be seen if they logged is as you, but they were looking for admin accounts

[–] Valmond@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone knows what maintainers should do to patch the vulnerability?

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Been patched already in release 0.18.2-rc's

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !fediverse@lemmy.ml