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You're absolutely not to run them without a VPN or other authentication portal in front of them.
Why would you even give them that much access? By default, all they can do is check feeds from sites and forward links to your download client. I haven't heard of any of these vulnerabilities and a quick Google search finds nothing mentioning this.
It sounds like someone port forwarded a bunch of software and found out why that isn't a good idea (or necessary) the hard way.
I'm not the person to answer the quesrion, I'm advocating for hot opening it up to the internet.