cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/923025

lemmy.world is a victim of an XSS attack right now and the hacker simply injected a JavaScript redirection into the sidebar.

It appears the Lemmy backend does not escape HTML in the main sidebar. Not sure if this is also true for community sidebars.

  • ImOnADiet
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    1 year ago

    well uh oh. Seems like we’re ok for now at least, maybe we should get the admins to shut the instance down