cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/923025
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.
Beehaw completely shut down as a response
While I respect their decision, I believe that’s a over-reaction at this point and we will not be doing that, yet.