In a stunning turn of events that has AI chatbot creators scratching their heads and cybersecurity experts shaking in their boots, n8n—the beloved workflow automation platform—has been compromised by a nefarious combination of code and chaos. Experts have now disclosed vulnerabilities so glaring that even your grandma’s AOL account wouldn’t be impressed.

The two dastardly critical bugs, elegantly named CVE-2026-27577 and CVE-2026-27493, make it possible for hackers to perform arbitrary command execution—because who doesn’t want to execute arbitrary commands these days? It’s like the ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ book for hackers, except with less reading and more data pilfering.

Developers at n8n, displaying a level of calm typically reserved for yoga instructors, have issued patches that they swear will remedy the situation. Users can once again return to automating tasks that no human ever really wanted to do in the first place, all while hoping that the next software update isn’t delivered with a side of digital catastrophe.