diff --git a/app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/Session.kt b/app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/Session.kt
index 27d6965..fc21e32 100644
--- a/app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/Session.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/Session.kt
@@ -585,7 +585,21 @@ class Session(
             // ⚠️ A group message is filed under the GROUP, not the sender.
             // Filing by sender scatters one conversation across as many threads
             // as it has participants.
-            val thread = message.content.groupId
+            //
+            // 🔴 **Both memberships are checked first (audit H1).** Filing on
+            // the sender's word alone let a contact conjure a group thread we
+            // are not in, and let anyone we share a session with — including a
+            // member we REMOVED, whose 1:1 session outlives their membership —
+            // post into a group they do not belong to. The roster is the
+            // relay's; a group it does not list for us is not ours.
+            val gid = message.content.groupId
+            if (gid != null) {
+                val known = groupRoster(gid)
+                if (known == null || message.fromUser !in known) {
+                    continue
+                }
+            }
+            val thread = gid
                 ?.let(Vault::threadForGroup)
                 ?: Vault.threadForUser(message.fromUser)
             record(thread, message.content.text, mine = false,
@@ -716,6 +730,24 @@ class Session(
         return posted
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Members of a group we are in, or null if the relay does not list it for
+     * us (audit H1). Cached for a short window: a poll pass can carry many
+     * group messages and each must not cost a round trip.
+     */
+    private var groupRosterCache: Pair<Long, Map<String, Set<Long>>>? = null
+
+    private fun groupRoster(gid: String): Set<Long>? {
+        val now = System.currentTimeMillis()
+        val cached = groupRosterCache
+        if (cached != null && now - cached.first < 30_000) return cached.second[gid]
+        val fresh = runCatching {
+            relay.listGroups().associate { it.id to it.memberIds.toSet() }
+        }.getOrNull() ?: return cached?.second?.get(gid)
+        groupRosterCache = now to fresh
+        return fresh[gid]
+    }
+
     // -- Contact list (P1) ---------------------------------------------------
 
     /**