Hugo Blog is a tech blog site. In commit 744ca15 and prior, the AI assistant proxy exposes three HTTP endpoints (POST /api/blog-assistant, POST /api/blog-search-embedding, POST /api/blog-search-rerank) without any authentication check. When deployed following the documented Nginx reverse-proxy setup, any unauthenticated remote attacker can send arbitrary requests that the proxy forwards to the upstream LLM/embedding/rerank API using the operator's server-side API key (OPENAI_API_KEY / AI_SEARCH_API_KEY). This enables unlimited quota consumption, cost exhaustion, and potential service unavailability for the operator. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.
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| Description | Hugo Blog is a tech blog site. In commit 744ca15 and prior, the AI assistant proxy exposes three HTTP endpoints (POST /api/blog-assistant, POST /api/blog-search-embedding, POST /api/blog-search-rerank) without any authentication check. When deployed following the documented Nginx reverse-proxy setup, any unauthenticated remote attacker can send arbitrary requests that the proxy forwards to the upstream LLM/embedding/rerank API using the operator's server-side API key (OPENAI_API_KEY / AI_SEARCH_API_KEY). This enables unlimited quota consumption, cost exhaustion, and potential service unavailability for the operator. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches. | |
| Title | Hugo Blog: Unauthenticated AI Proxy Allows Abuse of Server-Side API Key | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-306 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-11-13T19:21:26.887Z
Reserved: 2026-07-31T21:04:04.040Z
Link: CVE-2026-68905
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-11-13T20:19:00.900
Modified: 2026-11-13T20:19:00.900
Link: CVE-2026-68905
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