CVE-2025-31488 - CVE House
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Status published Medium 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

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

PCL2
Vulnerable Versions:
< 2.9.3

Timeline

Official Publish: April 6th, 2025
Last Modified: April 7th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
Execution
T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
Privilege Escalation
T1213 Data from Information Repositories
Collection
T1565.002 Stored Data Manipulation
Impact