Cross-Site Request Forgery on any API call in pyLoad may lead to admin privilege escalation

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    "title": "Cross-Site Request Forgery on any API call in pyLoad may lead to admin privilege escalation",
    "summary": "pyLoad is a free and open-source Download Manager written in pure Python. The `pyload` API allows any API call to be made using GET requests. Since the session cookie is not set to `SameSite: strict`, this opens the library up to severe attack possibilities via a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack. As a result any API call can be made via a CSRF attack by an unauthenticated user. This issue has been addressed in release `0.5.0b3.dev78`. All users are advised to upgrade.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:41.326526401Z",
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      "references": [
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        "https://github.com/pyload/pyload/security/advisories/GHSA-pgpj-v85q-h5fm",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22416",
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  "published_at": "2024-01-17T23:48:31.422+00:00"
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