CVE-2026-71212: Indravoyager Xidown

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

xidown (a yt-dlp/ffmpeg GUI wrapper) builds its yt-dlp command-line invocation (xidown/core/scanner.py and downloader.py) by appending the user-provided or scanned URL as a bare trailing positional argument, with no '--' end-of-options marker and no scheme validation anywhere in the codebase.

Affected products

• Indravoyager Xidown: up to and including 1.25.1.19

Published 2026-08-05. Last modified 2026-08-26.