# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.8 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H`)
- **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 available:** No
- **Published:** 10 Sep 2026
- **Updated:** 15 Sep 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-wpqw-whgf-gr4g

## 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.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery), CWE-1385 (Missing Origin Validation in WebSockets)

## 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.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-88061 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-88061 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: santifer career-ops. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-88061/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-88061/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-88061
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-88061
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-88061

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-88061/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.