CVE-2026-63434
MyTube: Visitor-Role Statistics Event Forgery Allows Analytics Data Poisoning
What happened?
MyTube is a self-hosted downloader and player for several video websites. Prior to 1.10.6, when statisticsEnabled and statisticsTrackVisitorActivity are enabled, a visitor-role user can submit events to the statistics ingest endpoint handled by ingestEvents in backend/src/controllers/statisticsController.ts. The handler reads req.body.events and accepts the client-controlled platform, sourceKind, and sessionId fields without server-side derivation or validation before passing the events to the analytics persistence path. A visitor can therefore attribute fabricated events to arbitrary platforms, sources, and sessions, corrupting administrator-visible view counts, download counts, platform breakdowns, source attribution, and session analytics. The server-derived actorRole and surface fields are not forgeable through this issue. This issue is fixed in version 1.10.6.
Affected software and versions
| Software | Version information | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| MyTubefranklioxygen | affected: < 1.10.6 | See vendor advisory |
Version information comes from the source record and can include unaffected products and exceptions. Distribution packages may contain backported fixes: an older upstream version alone does not prove a server is affected.
Is it being exploited?
This CVE was not listed in the CISA catalogue at our last retrieval. This does not establish that exploitation is absent.
How to respond
- Confirm the product, installed package version, and any configuration requirements in the vendor advisory.
- Follow the vendor’s remediation or workaround guidance in the references below. Structured fixed-version data is unavailable here; the publisher’s description may include a fix or workaround.
- Restart affected services if required, then verify the running version. Known exploitation may warrant investigation as well as patching.
Sources and remediation references
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63434
- https://github.com/franklioxygen/MyTube/security/advisories/GHSA-h5xx-g8fc-crr7
- https://github.com/franklioxygen/MyTube/commit/5cfbc22166de64dfb65cb789ef00909dd48783d7
- https://github.com/franklioxygen/MyTube/commit/60424529121018cbf0481034a97fca36d3bc5c66
- https://github.com/franklioxygen/MyTube/commit/d65913a9319dd840ab2ac77565325cf701306d6d
- https://github.com/franklioxygen/MyTube/releases/tag/v1.10.6