Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting gpt-researcher package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.31% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-GPTRESEARCHER-15917487
  • published6 Apr 2026
  • disclosed6 Apr 2026
  • creditYu Bao

Introduced: 6 Apr 2026

CVE-2026-5631  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for gpt-researcher.

Overview

gpt-researcher is a GPT Researcher is an autonomous agent designed for comprehensive web research on any task

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection in the extract_command_data function of the /ws endpoint. An attacker can execute arbitrary code by sending specially crafted arguments remotely.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1