First, please ensure you go into your account settings and enable two/multi factor authentication. No, I mean do it right now. I’ll wait till you’re done.
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Ok, thank you.
Now, if you are the admin of a mastodon instance, please go upgrade to 4.0.2 ASAP.
@jerry The article also says that all three active branches were patched: "However, they then released Mastodon 4.0.1, 3.5.5, and 3.4.10 to mitigate the issue."
Updating to any of these version should remediate this issue.