hello, since yesterday all my friends lost acces to the libraries. i have access to one of theose accounts so i removed access re-granted access nothing. and i removed as a friend re added. i can see that the users sees that they have access but non of the libraries show up. i am at a lost it has be…

Sounds like you might be running a compromised version of PMS. Plex have restricted access to such servers for any connected accounts. Updating the server to the current public version should fix this. [image] Plex Media Server - Security Update Announcements …

that is fair thanks for the info i will see what version i have and update to the latest and greatest

thank you so much yup this fixed the issue. worst case now users just have to re-pin all the libs to see them now. so this is great. thank you for the assistance this was the exact issue.

Can you elaborate on what “compromised” and “affected” mean here?

I’m only aware of what Plex posted in the linked announcement: [image] Plex Media Server - Security Update We recently received a report via our bug bounty program that there was a potential security issue affecting PMS versions 1.41.7.x to 1.42.0.x. Thanks to that user, we were able to address …

From what I’ve heard, Plex had a few server versions that could allow ANYONE to access your server, even if you didn’t allow access. It’s a pretty complicated thing, but it seems they screwed up the certificate or something for a few versions of Plex. To make sure someone cannot just connect to yo…

All my friends lost access to the plex server

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tom80H September 12, 2025, 4:39am 6

I’m only aware of what Plex posted in the linked announcement:

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All my friends lost access to the plex server

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