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CVE-2026-71212

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.4 Published: 2026-08-05 Modified: 2026-08-10

Description

xidown (a yt-dlp/ffmpeg GUI wrapper) builds its yt-dlp command-line invocation (xidown/core/scanner.py and downloader.py) by appending the user-provided or scanned URL as a bare trailing positional argument, with no '--' end-of-options marker and no scheme validation anywhere in the codebase.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-88

References