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mainbyseahorse [Ohio]

Regarding the recent Lemmy hack \*Update\*

In case you're not aware, multiple Lemmy instances suffered hacks recently that allowed the hackers to gain admin privileges and deface the instances and/or redirect users to other sites. Luckily, midwest.social was not a victim of this from what I can tell. To mitigate any more issues I have deleted the single custom emoji that had been uploaded and rotated the JWT which means you will have to log in again on all your devices.

Update: The devs have released 0.18.2 with a security fix for this and I've upgraded to it.

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linuxdaemon
midwest.social

If you log in and it doesn't show your username, you might have to clear your cookies for midwest.social and login again. I had to do that in Firefox anyway.

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trafguy
midwest.social

Thanks, I did a search and found more discussion:

So basically, it sounds like the issue is insufficient input sanitation in the markdown editor allowing unexpected JS to execute on the site. Sounds like the front end can be compromised, but I don't see anyone saying the back end is compromised, although an admin on lemmy.world was compromised.

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SaintWacko
midwest.social

Not sure if it's related, but my midwest.social account had disappeared from wefwef and I had to log back in

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SaintWackoreply
midwest.social

Oh. Wow, was that bit about the JWT always there? Did I just completely gloss over it?

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FormerGameDev
midwest.social

so... interestingly, account settings seem to be somehow related to that, as all my settings got mangled.

also, holy cow the dark theme on this is terrible

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