A malicious website can trick your browser into making requests to localhost:11501. If your local service lacks CSRF protection or relies on insecure cookies, an attacker could exploit it.
Mitigations:
So https://localhost:11501/url means:
“Connect to a secure web server running on my own machine, listening on port 11501, and request the /url endpoint.” https localhost 11501 url
Let’s create a working example using Node.js and Express with a trusted local certificate. A malicious website can trick your browser into
Frameworks like Next.js can generate a self-signed certificate and serve on a custom port. Your package.json might have a script like: Let’s create a working example using Node
"dev": "next dev --experimental-https --port 11501"
This explicitly creates the https localhost 11501 url.