Premise: As I'm changing the icon of my Application Menu in KDE, I opened the "Select Icon" dialog, I chose "Other icons", and "Browse". I get the Dolphin version of the "common open file dialog". This dialog opens my home folder. In my home folder I have a sub-directory. This sub-directory contains a HTML file. The HTML file contains only a `<video>` tag with attribute `autoplay="true" loop="true" src="[..]`. (In my case `<video id="vidBanner" class="banner" autoplay="true" loop="true" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b5f03d47c93279793af2d46/t/5b86591bb8a045dcb8664a1c/1535531301739/short+commercial.mp4"></video>`) Problem: Dolphin's "common open file dialog" starts playing the video. I was baffled as sound was playing and I had no idea where it was coming from. I thought I was hacked or something. If I remove the HTML file containing the `<video>`-tag, all behaves normal again. The processes involved: thumbnail.so -> QtWebEngineProcess. If video is being executed within the web page, I wonder what more can be executed.. and possibly exploited.. I have filed this bug as 'major' because I don't know how severe this issue actually is.. feel free to scale the severity down. I'm using most recent version of KDE Neon 5.12.6, Frameworks 5.49.0, Qt 5.11.1.
The HTML thumbnailer has been removed. So this is technically "fixed".