Invidious - Private Playlist Disclosure via Unauthenticated RSS Feed Endpoint | Advisories

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Invidious - Private Playlist Disclosure via Unauthenticated RSS Feed Endpoint

severity: medium
date: 6/29/2026
Affecting: Invidious < 2.20260626.0
CVE: CVE-2026-57946
CWE: CWE-862 Missing Authorization
CVSS: 6.3
CVSS V4 Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
References: Release Notes
Researcher Disclosure
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Credit: George Chen
Description: Invidious before version 2.20260626.0 contains a broken access control vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to retrieve private playlist contents by accessing the RSS feed playlist endpoint without authentication. Attackers can supply a playlist ID to the feed endpoint to obtain the full playlist contents, owner email address, and associated video entries without any authentication.

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