The changelog for the latest version of Launcher has a couple of entries that could be related to a security vulnerability, “Fixed XSS vulnerability” and “Added capability check for the save function Props to @Metamorfosec”. While the former would seem to be a more likely candidate to be related to an actual vulnerability, as far as we can tell it looked like it involves escaping values that can only be set by an Administrator, so not really a vulnerability. The latter it turned out relates to an actual vulnerability and one that wasn’t fully fixed.

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