CVE-2026-40071: Pyload

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pyLoad is a free and open-source download manager written in Python. Prior to 0.5.0b3.dev97, the /json/package_order, /json/link_order, and /json/abort_link WebUI JSON endpoints enforce weaker permissions than the core API methods they invoke. This allows authenticated low-privileged users to execute MODIFY operations that should be denied by pyLoad's own permission model. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.5.0b3.dev97.

Affected products

• Pyload Pyload: before 2026-04-13 (fixed in 2026-04-13)

Published 2026-04-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.