Public vulnerability disclosure

CVE-2026-68905

Hugo Blog: Unauthenticated AI Proxy Allows Abuse of Server-Side API Key

publishedCWE-306

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.

Technical severity8.2 highCVSS 3.1 · CNA: GitHub_M
Published2026-11-13Source updated 2026-11-13
Collected2026-11-131 attributed source

Fixes and workarounds

No remediation reported in collected sources.

Missing remediation information is not evidence that no patch exists.

Affected products and versions

Affected products, source version ranges and reporting authorities
ProductVersionsAuthority
hugo_blog
lanshi17
<= 744ca1563032e8a881390d3ed55d9a3ef2928502 (affected) CNA: GitHub_M

Version ranges are source assertions. Check the vendor advisory and your installed configuration before determining exposure.

CVSS assessments

CVSS scores, vectors and reporting authorities
Version / scoreVectorAuthority
3.1 / 8.2
high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:HCNA: GitHub_M

Exploit evidence

No exploit evidence in collected sources. This is not proof of no exploitation.

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