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

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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

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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

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Anyone knows what maintainers should do to patch the vulnerability?

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Been patched already in release 0.18.2-rc’s

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