Plain Craft Launcher's custom homepage can use Internet Explorer to load web pages with the help of controls such as WebBrowser

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    "title": "Plain Craft Launcher's custom homepage can use Internet Explorer to load web pages with the help of controls such as WebBrowser",
    "summary": "Plain Craft Launcher (PCL) is a launcher for Minecraft. PCL allows users to use homepages provided by third parties. If controls such as WebBrowser are used in the homepage, WPF will use Internet Explorer to load the specified webpage. If the user uses a malicious homepage, the attacker can use IE background to access the specified webpage without knowing it. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.9.3.",
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