Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

Critical Vulnerability Exploits Several Lemmy Instances

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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

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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Luckily it was resolved quickly.

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