Drawing attention on this instance so Admins are aware and can address the propagating exploit.

EDIT: Found more info about the patch.

A more thorough recap of the issue.

GitHub PR fixing the bug: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1897/files

If your instance has custom emojis defined, this is exploitable everywhere Markdown is available. It is NOT restricted to admins, but can be used to steal an admin’s JWT, which then lets the attacker get into that admin’s account which can then spread the exploit further by putting it somewhere where it’s rendered on every single page and then deface the site.

If your instance doesn’t have any custom emojis, you are safe, the exploit requires custom emojis to trigger the bad code branch.

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    So in that regard: it will get safer over time.

    That’s true, but it’ll never be “safe” thanks to the malicious actors controlling pull request and being easily able to bypass most eyeballs with minor or major changes.

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      The world will never be safe… (increasingly accelerated by climate change). The point that the devs are malicious actors still has to be proven, and I don’t see any evidence yet. They have their own instance that they control and censor/moderate (and openly so btw.), I’m totally fine with that, but the open source project certainly doesn’t have the intent to be malicious (well to some regard in taking reddits userbase ^^).

      Anyway I’m not continuing feeding the troll, have a nice day and please don’t fall to conspiracy theories (believing that the lemmy devs are malicious actors is probably the first step in that direction…)

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        The world will never be safe… (increasingly accelerated by climate change)

        Alright, with this wild tangent I’m done here.

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          Ahh I just hit a wound. Just checked your history, of course how could I not see it, a climate-change denier as well, had to be… Well so you’re probably already lost then…

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            Guy, climate change is an obvious and currently happening thing that I 100 percent believe is real and needs to be handled.

            Going on wild tangents about how climate change makes everyone not save in a discussion about software security is the problem.