Comment on Malware on the fediverse?

CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ram@bookwormstory.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Custom emoji was one, and another one in July(?) was in sidebars not being sanitized

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  • CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What do you mean by sanitized?

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    • ram@bookwormstory.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Stripped of executable code. IIRC the issue in particular was that sidebars observed HTML and you could put an iframe with potentially malicious code into them.

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      • CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Interesting. Once the development of Lemmy slows down a couple years from now it would be interesting to see a video detailing the hiccups around its growth

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