TL;DR AI editors love exec() with a template string, because that is what most tutorials...
TL;DR
AI editors love exec() with a template string, because that is what most tutorials show.
Drop one user-controlled variable into that string and you have remote command execution.
Switch to execFile/spawn with an argument array so no shell ever parses the input.
I asked Cursor to add an image thumbnail endpoint to a side project last week. It gave me working code in about four seconds. It also gave me a way for any user to run shell commands on my server.
Patched in Cursor 3.0, CVE-2026-50548 and CVE-2026-50549 could enable zero-click command execution via hidden instructions.
TL;DR AI editors love string interpolation for SQL. That is exactly how injection gets...
New vulnerabilities in Cursor IDE expose how prompt injection can bypass AI sandbox protections to enable remote code execution.
Cursor patched critical vulnerabilities CVE-2026-50548 and CVE-2026-50549 (DuneSlide) that enable prompt injection attacks…
TL;DR AI editors hardcode API keys, tokens, and JWT secrets straight into source because...
An unpatched vulnerability in Cursor on Windows could allow attackers to achieve code execution via malicious repositories.
