Hey everyone! I just had something rather weird and concerning happen. While browsing Lemmy through the default web interface, I clicked on a post link and got the usual server error. I refreshed the page and got the same thing. Then, I refreshed a second time and while the post loaded, I was a bit perplexed as my Lemmy theme was completely different. I thought that was weird, so I decided to go Settings. That’s when I realized that the username in the top right corner was not my own. Instead of “Shrinra”, it showed “aeharding”! I clicked the link for Settings just to see what would happen, and thankfully, it threw me out of the session entirely. In fact, my actual session was gone and I had to log back in.

A part of me thinks I am crazy. Has anyone else experienced this? If so, it is a known security issue? It is more than a bit concerning to think that someone else may be able to access someone else’s session just by navigating to a certain page.

Thanks!

  • Quinten
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    11 year ago

    Hi!

    When exactly did it occur? Was it during the system update? Did you have the time to click on your profile to see where it redirects to?

    It also seems like a Lemmy issue rather than a lemmy.world issue, since I have read also some things about it on another instance.

    Would love to hear if you have the answers to the questions above. You can also submit a issue on Lemmy’s GitHub to notify the developers.