{"id":176969,"date":"2026-01-12T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/critical-vulnerability-found-in-n8n-workflow-automation-platform\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:40:13","slug":"critical-vulnerability-found-in-n8n-workflow-automation-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/critical-vulnerability-found-in-n8n-workflow-automation-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical vulnerability found in n8n workflow automation platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/critical-vulnerability-n8n-automation-platform\/809360\/\">Critical vulnerability found in n8n workflow automation platform<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/critical-vulnerability-n8n-automation-platform\/809360\/\">https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/critical-vulnerability-n8n-automation-platform\/809360\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-12 12:29:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cybersecuritydive.com\">www.cybersecuritydive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. <\/p>\n<p>Security researchers warn that tens of thousands of systems may be exposed to a critical vulnerability in n8n, a widely used open-source workflow automation platform.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21858, could allow an attacker to bypass automation entirely by using a \u201ccontent-type confusion\u201d bug in standards modes, according to researchers at Cyera.The vulnerability has a severity score of 10.<br \/>\nThe tool is considered critical for AI agents and enterprise automation, according to Cyera.\u00a0<br \/>\nResearchers warned that compromising an n8n environment could allow an attacker to gain widespread access to sensitive credentials, including Salesforce, AWS and OpenAI.\u00a0<br \/>\nAs of Friday, researchers at Shadowserver found more than 105,000 vulnerable instances out of over 230,000. Those estimates have since fallen to about 59,500.\u00a0<br \/>\nResearchers at Censys reported more than 26,000 exposed hosts.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers initially notified n8n about the vulnerability in November and patches were released to the customer base on Nov. 18. Users should upgrade to version 1.121.0. There is no current evidence of exploitation. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critical vulnerability found in n8n workflow automation platform https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/critical-vulnerability-n8n-automation-platform\/809360\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-12 12:29:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imgproxy.divecdn.com\/EmcEdwkGxx-2z-mFsEuOIyaqfkr0cUbJs4DZePps40o\/g:ce\/rs:fit:770:435\/Z3M6Ly9kaXZlc2l0ZS1zdG9yYWdlL2RpdmVpbWFnZS9haV9WVHZ2RThaLmpwZw==.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,27],"class_list":["post-176969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176971,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176969\/revisions\/176971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}