CVE-2023-34457: Improper Input Validation
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MechanicalSoup is a Python library for automating interaction with websites. Starting in version 0.2.0 and prior to version 1.3.0, a malicious web server can read arbitrary files on the client using a <input type="file" ...>
inside HTML form. All users of MechanicalSoup’s form submission are affected, unless they took very specific (and manual) steps to reset HTML form field values. Version 1.3.0 contains a patch for this issue.
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