I tried what another user reported and it worked. I submitted a github issue as the security email seems to be unmonitored based on me trying to contact it (regarding a different issue) for over a week now.

Be careful about links you click in Lemmy, I guess.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/774797

What is XSS?

Cross-site scripting (XSS) is an exploit where the attacker attaches code onto a legitimate website that will execute when the victim loads the website. That malicious code can be inserted in several ways. Most popularly, it is either added to the end of a url or posted directly onto a page that displays user-generated content. In more technical terms, cross-site scripting is a client-side code injection attack. https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/security/threats/cross-site-scripting/

Impact

One-click Lemmy account compromise by social engineering users to click your posts URL.

Reproduction

Lemmy does not properly sanitize URI’s on posts leading to cross-site scripting. You can see this working in action by clicking the “link” attached to this post on the web client.

To recreate, simply create a new post with the URL field set to: javascript:alert(1)//

Patching

Adding filtering to block javascript: and data: URI’s seems like the easiest approach.

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    1 year ago

    While this is a critical issue, it makes me trust the platform even more, thanks to people like you who are committed to improving the security. So thanks for reporting this and hopefully it will be fixed as soon as possible 👌