RULE(RULE ID:338820)

Rule General Information
Release Date: 2025-04-22
Rule Name: Pyload Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CVE-2023-0488)
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Rule Protection Details
Description: Pyload is a free and open-source download manager written in Python, designed to be extremely lightweight, easily expandable, and fully manageable via the web. Versions of pyload/pyload prior to 0.5.0b3.dev42 have a cross-site scripting vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Impact: An attacker can conduct a cross-site scripting attack to inject malicious client-side scripts into web pages viewed by other users, or to bypass access controls such as the same-origin policy, if affected version is installed.
Affected OS: Windows, Linux, Others
Reference: https://github.com/pyload/pyload/commit/46d75a3087f3237d06530d55998938e2e2bda6bd
https://huntr.dev/bounties/4311d8d7-682c-4f2a-b92c-3f9f1a36255a
Solutions
Please refer to announcements or patches release by the vendor: https://github.com/pyload/pyload/commit/46d75a3087f3237d06530d55998938e2e2bda6bd