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Critical Vulnerability Exploits Several Lemmy Instances

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Several major Lemmy instances were hacked due to an XSS vulnerability. There's a path forward for mitigation, but here's what happened.

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Admins, make sure you update to 18.2, this has already been patched:

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-07-11_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.18.2
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  Done!
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    Bedankt!

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