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
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2026-11-13T19:21:26.887Z

Updated: 2026-11-13T19:21:26.887Z

Reserved: 2026-07-31T21:04:04.040Z

Link: CVE-2026-68905

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-11-13T20:19:00.900

Modified: 2026-11-13T20:19:00.900

Link: CVE-2026-68905

cve-icon Redhat

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