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⚡ AI Lessons
Dev.to · Charles Kern
1d ago
Why Cursor Keeps Writing Prototype Pollution Into Your Merge Code
TL;DR AI editors love writing recursive merge helpers, and most of them are open to...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
2d ago
Why Cursor Keeps Writing Command Injection Into Your Code (CWE-78)
TL;DR AI editors love exec() with a template string, because that is what most tutorials...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
4d ago
Scan Any Public GitHub Repo for Security Issues in Seconds (No Account)
TL;DR You can now paste any public GitHub repo URL and get a security grade back in...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
Why Cursor Keeps Writing SSRF Into Your URL Fetch Code
TL;DR Ask any AI editor for a "fetch this URL" feature and it hands the user's raw input...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Why Cursor Keeps Hashing Passwords With MD5 (And How to Fix It)
TL;DR AI editors still reach for md5/sha1 to hash passwords because that is what a decade...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
1w ago
Why Cursor's CORS Fix Opens Your API to Any Website (CWE-942)
TL;DR Ask Cursor to "fix the CORS error" and you usually get a wildcard or a reflected...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
1w ago
Why Cursor Keeps Hardcoding Secrets in AI-Generated Code (CWE-798)
TL;DR AI editors hardcode API keys, tokens, and JWT secrets straight into source because...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Ranked #1 on Google, Invisible in ChatGPT? Here's Why
A marketing director I spoke with last month spent eighteen months and roughly $60K building out her...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
4w ago
IDOR in AI-Generated APIs: The Ownership Check Cursor Always Skips
TL;DR AI tools generate authenticated routes but routinely skip ownership validation --...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Why Ranking #1 on Google Doesn't Mean AI Cites You
A marketing director I talked to recently had a problem she couldn't explain. Her company ranked on...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Why Cursor Keeps Writing MD5 for Passwords (And How to Fix It)
TL;DR AI editors frequently output MD5 or SHA-1 for password hashing -- both broken for...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
AI-Generated APIs Have an IDOR Problem: 3 Patterns Cursor Misses
TL;DR AI editors add authentication middleware but skip per-resource ownership checks by...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Why Cursor Keeps Writing MD5 Password Hashes (CWE-328)
TL;DR AI editors default to MD5/SHA1 because training data is dominated by pre-2012...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
2mo ago
3 SQL Injection Patterns Cursor Keeps Writing Into Your API
TL;DR AI editors generate SQL queries with template literals -- directly injectable,...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
2mo ago
Prototype Pollution: What Cursor's Object Merge Code Misses
TL;DR Cursor and Claude Code default to for...in object merge -- a CWE-1321 prototype...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
2mo ago
Cursor Keeps Writing IDOR Into Your APIs. Here's the Fix.
TL;DR AI editors generate authenticated endpoints with no ownership verification Any...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
IDOR in Cursor-Generated Code: The Auth Bug Nobody Checks For
TL;DR AI-generated CRUD endpoints routinely skip ownership checks (CWE-639) Any...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
🤖 AI Agents & Automation
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
IDOR in AI-Generated Code: What Cursor Won't Check for You
TL;DR Cursor generates authenticated API routes with no ownership verification by...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
IDOR in AI-Generated APIs: What Cursor Won't Check for You
TL;DR AI editors generate routes that fetch resources by ID with no ownership check --...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
2mo ago
Why Cursor Skips Auth Middleware on Every Route It Generates
TL;DR AI editors consistently generate new routes without auth middleware, even when the...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
2mo ago
How to Fix Wildcard CORS in Cursor-Generated Code (CWE-942)
TL;DR Cursor and Claude Code default to cors() with no arguments in every Express...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
Why Cursor Keeps Generating Wildcard CORS -- And How to Fix It
TL;DR AI editors almost always default to cors() with no config -- which sets...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
🔐 Cybersecurity
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
Why Cursor Keeps Hardcoding Your API Keys (And How to Stop It)
TL;DR AI assistants trained on public repos reproduce hardcoded secrets because that's...
Dev.to · Charles Kern
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
Why Cursor Generates Wildcard CORS in Every Express App
TL;DR Cursor almost always outputs cors() or cors({ origin: '*' }) with no origin...
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