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(URGENT) Lemmy has an XSS vulnerability in the tagline, the sidebar and in the legal information field
(sh.itjust.works)
DO NOT OPEN THE "LEGAL" PAGE
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.
EDIT:
the exploit is also in the tagline that appears on top of the main feed for status updates, like the following one for SDF Chatter:
EDIT 2:
The legal information field also has that exploit, so that when you go to the "Legal" page it shows the HTML unescaped, but fortunately (for now) he's using double-quotes.
"legal_information":" ![\" onload=\"if(localStorage.getItem(`h`) != `true`){document.body.innerHTML = `\u003Ch1\u003ESite has been seized by Reddit for copyright infringment\u003C\u002Fh1\u003E`; setTimeout(() =\u003E {window.location.href = `https:\u002F\u002Flemmy.world\u002Fpictrs\u002Fimage\u002F7aa772b7-9416-45d1-805b-36ec21be9f66.mp4`}, 10000)}\"](https:\u002F\u002Flemmy.world\u002Fpictrs\u002Fimage\u002F66ca36df-4ada-47b3-9169-01870d8fb0ac.png \"lw\")
Not sure if it's actually XSS. Lemmy.world did have an admin account compromise so it could've been done locally.
It actually looks like it may be being propagated via comments. I received more than a handful from lemmy.world and it appears they were in the process of deleting them before they went dark. I nuked the remaining ones by hand but you can see that lemmy.blahaj.zone still has the same few remaining... https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/search?q=onload%3D&type=All&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll
Wow you're right, so it's not just sidebars, it's the whole Markdown parser:
He encoded the URL in ASCII.
So any comment or post?
Yes, so you don't even need to compromise an admin account
So maybe the admin account was compromised as a result of the hack, rather than the other way around?
the hacker could use a cookie stealer injected by the xss to steal the admin account.
I think that's right on the money.
https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/850269
That makes more sense.