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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for this. I needed to do this on Jerboa too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your work and keeping us safe!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your hard work!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for providing this space for us!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the update! 👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's because of the new token.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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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