HotCRP is conference review software. Starting in commit aa20ef288828b04550950cf67c831af8a525f508 and prior to commit ceacd5f1476458792c44c6a993670f02c984b4a0, authors with at least one submission on a HotCRP site could use the document API to download any documents (PDFs, attachments) associated with any submission. The problem was patched in commit ceacd5f1476458792c44c6a993670f02c984b4a0.
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