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How CSRF Protection Failures Happen in FastAPI and How to Fix Them

A critical CORS misconfiguration in `backend/main.py` allowed cookies to be sent alongside wildcard-origin requests, violating the CORS specification and opening the door to cross-site request forgery attacks. The fix conditionally disables `allow_credentials` when the allowed origins list contains a wildcard, bringing the configuration into compliance with browser security rules. This change closes a subtle but dangerous gap that could have let attackers on sibling subdomains forge authenticate

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anupamme
Aug 26, 2026
high8 min

How Unsafe eval() in JavaScript Happens in React Components and How to Fix It

A high-severity code injection vulnerability was discovered in `TurnPlanner.tsx`, where the `parseInputExpr` function used JavaScript's `Function` constructor — effectively `eval()` — to evaluate user-provided mathematical expressions. The regex guard in place only checked for the presence of arithmetic operators, not whether the input was safe to execute, leaving the door open for arbitrary JavaScript injection. A targeted whitelist fix was applied to reject any input containing characters outs

#injection#react#typescript+3 more
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anupamme
Aug 26, 2026
critical7 min

How Missing Rate Limiting Happens in Node.js SSE Handlers and How to Fix It

A critical missing rate-limiting control in `src/sse/handlers/chat.js` allowed any caller to flood the SSE chat endpoint with unlimited requests, risking server resource exhaustion, denial of service, and runaway AI provider API costs. The fix introduces a per-IP sliding-window rate limiter that caps requests at 60 per minute and returns HTTP 429 on violations. Because the endpoint was publicly reachable and only validated API keys — not request frequency — exploitation required nothing more tha

#security#node-js#rate-limiting+2 more
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anupamme
Aug 26, 2026
high8 min

How Command Injection Happens in Node.js Route Handlers and How to Fix It

A high-severity command injection vulnerability was discovered in `webhook/src/routes/bid-requests/create.route.js`, where user-controlled values were passed directly to route handlers without any schema validation. Without input validation, attackers could supply malformed or malicious values — including shell metacharacters — that propagate into downstream command construction, enabling arbitrary command execution. The fix adds strict UUID and type validation middleware directly in the route d

#command-injection#nodejs#express+2 more
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anupamme
Aug 26, 2026
high8 min

How Unsafe Deserialization into interface{} happens in Go and how to fix it

A high-severity unsafe deserialization vulnerability was discovered in `web/session/session.go` where a type assertion on an `interface{}` value was performed without checking success, enabling arbitrary data structures to flow into the application. The fix adds a two-branch type assertion that returns `nil` when the cast fails, preventing unexpected types from propagating. This pattern is common in Go session management code and is easy to overlook during code review.

#deserialization#golang#session-management+2 more
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anupamme
Aug 26, 2026
high8 min

How Prototype Pollution happens in Node.js and how to fix it

A high-severity prototype pollution vulnerability (CVE-2020-8203) was identified in the lodash library via the `zipObjectDeep` function, present as a transitive dependency through postcss in the project's `yarn.lock`. The fix upgrades postcss from 8.5.8 to 8.5.12 using a Yarn resolution override, eliminating the vulnerable lodash code path and reducing the attack surface against crafted CSS input. This change protects the application from object prototype manipulation that could lead to informat

#injection#nodejs#javascript+4 more
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anupamme
Aug 26, 2026
critical9 min

How Prototype Pollution happens in Node.js protobufjs and how to fix it

CVE-2023-36665 is a critical prototype pollution vulnerability in protobufjs that allows attackers to corrupt JavaScript's Object prototype by crafting malicious protobuf messages. The vulnerability existed in protobufjs 6.11.3 and was resolved by upgrading to 6.11.4 (and 7.2.5 for the v7 branch). Applications that parse user-supplied protobuf data are directly at risk of runtime behavior manipulation, privilege escalation, or denial of service.

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anupamme
Aug 26, 2026
critical8 min

How Unsanitized IPC Data Injection happens in Electron/HTML and how to fix it

A content injection vulnerability in `src/NankaiTrough.html` allowed attacker-controlled IPC message data to flow directly into DOM properties without type coercion or validation. The fix explicitly converts all `request.data` fields to strings using `String()` with fallback defaults before assigning them to `document.title` and `innerText` properties, eliminating the risk of prototype pollution and unexpected object-to-string coercion attacks.

#xss#javascript#electron+3 more
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anupamme
Aug 26, 2026
critical9 min

How Plaintext Token Storage happens in TypeScript/Tauri and how to fix it

A critical vulnerability in a Tauri desktop application allowed GitHub API tokens with full `repo` scope to be written to plaintext local storage files via the `getAllSettings()` function in `src/config/settings.ts`. Any process with filesystem access — including malware, other apps, or a logged-in attacker — could silently extract these tokens. The fix introduces a `SENSITIVE_KEYS` exclusion set that prevents credentials from being serialized to disk.

#cryptography#typescript#tauri+3 more
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anupamme
Aug 26, 2026
critical8 min

How Unrestricted File Upload happens in Node.js/Express and how to fix it

A critical unrestricted file upload vulnerability was discovered in `mainsystem/routes/admin/profile.js`, where the avatar upload endpoint accepted any file type without validation. An authenticated attacker could upload a malicious server-side script to a web-accessible directory and execute arbitrary code on the server. The fix adds MIME type filtering, an allowlist of safe image formats, and a 2 MB file size limit to the multer middleware.

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anupamme
Aug 26, 2026
critical7 min

How Prompt Injection happens in Node.js LLM integrations and how to fix it

A critical prompt injection vulnerability in `src/llm.js` allowed user-supplied conversation turns to be forwarded directly to external AI APIs without any role validation or content sanitization. By injecting a malicious `role` value or crafted `text` payload, an attacker could manipulate the LLM's behavior, bypass instructions, or exfiltrate data. The fix introduces a `sanitizeTurns()` function that whitelists valid roles and coerces text content to safe string values before the payload reache

#injection#prompt-injection#nodejs+2 more
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anupamme
Aug 26, 2026
critical9 min

How Unsafe eval() in Browser Chrome Context Happens in JavaScript and How to Fix It

A critical code injection vulnerability in `command-palette/dynamic-commands.js` allowed arbitrary JavaScript to execute in the browser's privileged chrome context by passing unsanitized code from a user-controlled settings file directly into `Cu.evalInSandbox()`. The fix introduces an HMAC-based trust system that cryptographically hashes each custom command's code and requires explicit user approval before execution. This prevents attackers who can write to the settings file from silently injec

#injection#javascript#browser-extension+4 more
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anupamme
Aug 26, 2026