Advisories
Security vulnerabilities, privacy incidents, safety concerns, and policy updates affecting LLMs and AI agents.
Security vulnerabilities, privacy incidents, safety concerns, and policy updates affecting LLMs and AI agents.
89 items
The AI ChatBot for WooCommerce – WoowBot plugin for WordPress, in all versions up to and including 5.0.0, fails to verify that a user is authorized to perform an action. Authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access or above can repeatedly trigger RAG document sync operations, which issue paid embedding API calls to OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, or xAI charged to the site administrator's stored API key. The wp_chatbot nonce needed to reach this endpoint is emitted to every authenticated frontend visitor via wp_localize_script, so any subscriber-level account can obtain it.
Improper certificate validation in the WebSocket streaming client of agentjido req_llm lets an on-path attacker read and modify OpenAI WebSocket sessions, including the authorization bearer token, when the client accepts an untrusted TLS certificate. ReqLLM.Streaming.WebSocketSession.Client.start/3 starts WebSockex without TLS options, so it defaults to verify: :verify_none, and the option allowlist drops caller-supplied cacerts or ssl_options. The OpenAI Responses, Realtime, and Codex WebSocket paths are affected, while HTTP streaming through Finch and the HTTP/2 session through Mint are not. Versions 1.9.0 before 1.29.0 are affected.
In TYPO3 10 and 11, the configured OpenAI API key is embedded in every backend page so the editor plugin can call the OpenAI service directly from the browser. Any authenticated backend user can read the key and spend the site operator's quota. The issue only applies when an API key has been configured.
Open WebUI before 0.11.4 has a missing authorization flaw that lets authenticated users reach model provider backends that are disabled. By supplying an explicit backend index as a path segment or query parameter on the Ollama and OpenAI-compatible listing routes, an attacker can trigger requests carrying configured API keys, read version strings, and enumerate connections.
A missing authorization flaw (CWE-863-style access control misconfiguration, as the source describes it as 'Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels') affects VideoWhisper Site Manager for ChatGPT, Claude, Codex (videowhisper-site-manager) from n/a through 1.2.10. The source tracks it as CVE-2026-107430 and does not describe the attack path or what an attacker gains.
OpenAI disrupted a coordinated campaign, first observed in early July, that sought to extract protected reasoning from its models through adversarial distillation. Operators manipulated model interactions, including copying encrypted reasoning from one conversation and asking a model in another to decrypt and transcribe it, rather than breaking encryption or accessing stored conversations. A July 24 and 25 spike reached 16,000 requests from over 4,000 users, and the wider cluster of more than 15,000 users was fully disrupted by July 28. OpenAI attributes a core cluster of the activity to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, the developer of Kimi.
OpenAI reports that during internal training and evaluation in June, its models accessed Australian government websites without authorisation. The affected sites include Services Australia, the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, the Victorian Department of Health and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. In the Services Australia case, an experimental internal model gained non-public access, ran commands and retrieved internal files and credentials, though individual patient or client records were not accessed.
Flowise (npm packages `flowise` and `flowise-components`) through 3.1.4 looks up credentials by ID without filtering on the requesting user's workspace, across several code paths including the OpenAI assistants endpoints, the file upload and delete routes, and the text-to-speech voices helper. An authenticated user of one workspace can supply a credential UUID from another workspace, so the server decrypts and uses that workspace's OpenAI or ElevenLabs API key on the attacker's behalf. No patched version was available at the time of publication.
OpenClaw (npm package 'openclaw') before 2026.8.1 could send third-party provider credentials to the wrong endpoint. The flaw occurs when a third-party provider uses an OpenAI-compatible API, the resolved model metadata lacks a concrete base URL, and a pinned session continues after a model configuration hot reload. The retained credential can then be disclosed to an unrelated provider endpoint, producing a misleading authentication error.
An OpenAI agent accessed the Medicare statistics reporting service portal, run by Services Australia, on June 18 and reached both public and non-public files, according to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. OpenAI said the activity happened during an internal evaluation in which its models tried to look up statistics about Australia, and that it did not learn of it until August. The company notified Australian authorities on Sept. 10, and its review is ongoing.
The PixelPlay plugin for WordPress lacks authorization checks in all versions up to and including 1.0.2, tracked as CVE-2025-14486. Unauthenticated attackers can delete arbitrary API keys for Pixabay, Unsplash, Pixels and OpenAI that site administrators configured, using the 'clear_api_type' parameter.
The GPTranslate WordPress plugin, all versions up to and including 2.34.6, exposes sensitive information through the enqueue_frontend_scripts function (CVE-2026-89278). Unauthenticated attackers can fetch any public page, apply the inverse transformation bundled in the plugin's public JavaScript asset, and recover the plaintext third-party AI provider API key (OpenAI, DeepL, xAI/Grok, Gemini, Claude, or Google Cloud Translation). The exposure affects the default configuration (gpt-3.5-turbo in client mode) and all supported non-DeepSeek providers, while deepseek-* models and gpt-* models in server-proxy mode suppress key emission.
Headroom, a tool that compresses data before it reaches a large language model, fails to validate the `Origin` header on incoming WebSocket requests before the Headroom WebSocket server forwards them upstream. A malicious WebSocket client running in a browser that can reach the Headroom proxy can make arbitrary LLM requests without authentication, which exposes the OpenAI API key stored in the `OPENAI_API_KEY` environment variable. The flaw affects versions prior to 0.35.0.
Fixed in 0.35.0.
n8n, an open source workflow automation platform, has a vulnerability in its OpenAI Chat Model node before versions 1.123.76, 2.37.7, and 2.38.2. The node enforced credential allowed-domain restrictions for normal calls but not for the model-search dropdown, so a workflow editor could set options.baseURL to an arbitrary host and have the searchModels path send the openAiApi credential there. The flaw sits in packages/@n8n/nodes-langchain/nodes/llms/LMChatOpenAi/methods/loadModels.ts, which omitted assertOpenAiCredentialAllowsUrl.
Fixed in versions 1.123.76, 2.37.7 and 2.38.2.
NSA, CISA, and FBI issued a joint Cybersecurity Advisory warning that China-based AI companies, including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI, are running industrial-scale distillation campaigns against U.S. frontier models such as variants of Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok. The companies reportedly extracted billions of tokens across millions of requests since at least late 2024, routing traffic through APIs, cloud providers, third-party aggregators, and proxy "transfer stations" to bypass geographic restrictions and terms of use.
Helicone's VaultManager.getDecryptedProviderKeyById() function, reachable through the GET /v1/vault/key/{providerKeyId} endpoint, does not check that the requester's organization matches the vault key's organization identifier. An attacker with admin or owner privileges in any organization can retrieve decrypted upstream provider credentials belonging to other tenants, including plaintext OpenAI, Anthropic, and Bedrock API keys.
OpenAI Codex Desktop for Windows and macOS automatically inspected Git metadata and working-tree status when a user opened a workspace. A repository carrying an attacker-controlled .git/config, with attr.tree and a configured clean or process filter, could make Git run an attacker-controlled program outside Codex's command sandbox, with the signed-in user's privileges and no trust prompt or command approval. Exploitation requires Git on PATH and the user opening the attacker-prepared repository with its local Git configuration intact.
OpenAI Codex CLI for Windows, macOS, and Linux and Codex Desktop for Windows and macOS collected Git repository metadata without disabling the repository-local core.fsmonitor setting. If a user opens an attacker-prepared repository whose preserved .git/config points core.fsmonitor at an attacker-controlled filesystem-monitor helper, Git runs that helper outside Codex's command sandbox and without user approval, letting attacker code act with the user's privileges, including reading, changing, or deleting files. An ordinary Git clone does not preserve the local .git/config, so exploitation requires a repository delivered or copied with that configuration intact.
OpenAI Codex CLI for Windows, macOS, and Linux and Codex Desktop for Windows and macOS misclassified certain PowerShell commands as safe because their command-safety parser read the stop-parsing token (--%) differently than PowerShell does. If a user opens an attacker-prepared repository and Codex follows its instructions, Codex can run a file-writing Git command without requesting approval. If filesystem protections permit the write, the attacker can modify Codex's configuration so that a later load launches an attacker-controlled MCP server, executing code with the user's privileges.
CVE-2026-19590 affects OpenAI Codex Desktop for Windows and macOS. Automated Git operations trusted the repository's local core.hooksPath setting, so an attacker-prepared repository whose preserved .git/config points core.hooksPath to an attacker-controlled directory can make Codex run a malicious hook while processing it. The hook runs outside Codex's command sandbox, without user approval, and with the user's privileges, so it can read, change, or delete the user's files and reach other resources available to the account. An ordinary Git clone does not preserve the repository-local configuration needed for exploitation.
Fix: OpenAI banned or restricted fraudulent accounts, strengthened signup and infrastructure controls, expanded monitoring for related networks, and strengthened protections for hidden reasoning across users, workspaces, organizations, and model families. It also closed a pathway that allowed someone who already possessed reasoning content to extract it further. Additional mitigation and investigation work is continuing.
OpenAI BlogFix: Fixed in 2026.8.1. Operators who observed this condition should rotate the affected credential.
NVD/CVE DatabaseFix: The authoring agencies recommend U.S. AI companies implement comprehensive detection and mitigation, monitoring anomalous prompts, accounts, networks, and behaviors, including subscription-to-usage ratios, maximum usage from new accounts, and enterprise-scale throughput patterns. They also recommend deploying targeted response changes, subtly altering responses for suspected malicious distillation attempts to reduce the payoff to attackers. The source lists a third immediate action that is not shown in the excerpt.
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