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CVE-2025-31488: Plain Craft Launcher's custom homepage can use Internet Explorer to load web pages with the help of controls such as WebBrowser
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v4.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2025-04-06 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-20
Description
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.
Affected products
- Hex-Dragon PCL2: before 2.9.3
References
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