CVE-2026-88061 Cross-site request forgery in career-ops
Unauthenticated attackers can execute arbitrary commands via cross-origin requests to the local dashboard API if the user visits a malicious page.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-88061?
CVE-2026-88061 is a medium-severity vulnerability in santifer career-ops, published on 10 Sep 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
career-ops is an open-source AI-assisted job search and application management tool. Prior to 0.8.0, the career-ops local web dashboard web/ exposed command-spawning and user-file-writing /api routes without validating request origin or restricting clients to loopback addresses. A malicious page in another browser tab could send cross-origin localhost requests while the dashboard was running, and a dashboard bound beyond loopback could receive direct requests from the local network. Both paths allowed unauthenticated command execution as the dashboard user, but npm installations were unaffected because web/ is excluded from the published package. This issue is fixed in version 0.8.0.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-88061?
How do I fix CVE-2026-88061?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-88061 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2026-88061 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-88061 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-wpqw-whgf-gr4g.