12 Sep, 2026

Over 36,000 exposed Plex servers vulnerable to recent flaws

Over 36,000 Plex Media servers exposed online remain unpatched against multiple security vulnerabilities and are vulnerable to attacks. Plex urged users a week ago to secure their media servers immediately against security issues that still lack CVE IDs for easy tracking. While the company didn’t provide additional details on Tuesday when it issued the warning, these security […]

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Plex warns users to patch security vulnerabilities immediately

Plex urged users this week to update their desktop clients and media servers immediately to patch multiple security vulnerabilities. These flaws have not yet been assigned CVE IDs for easy tracking, and while Plex didn’t provide additional details on Tuesday, the security issues are known to affect Plex Media Server v1.43.2 and earlier. Plex also emailed users running affected […]

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Plex tells users to reset passwords after new data breach

Media streaming platform Plex is warning customers to reset passwords after suffering a data breach in which a hacker was able to steal customer authentication data from one of its databases. In a data breach notification seen by GeekFeed, Plex says the stolen data includes email addresses, usernames, securely hashed passwords, and authentication data. “An […]

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Plex warns users to patch security vulnerability immediately

Plex has notified some of its users on Thursday to urgently update their media servers due to a recently patched security vulnerability. The company has yet to assign a CVE-ID to track the flaw and didn’t provide additional details regarding the patch, only saying that it impacts Plex Media Server versions 1.41.7.x to 1.42.0.x. Yesterday, […]

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