Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessSend unauthenticated API request to endpoint
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ExploitBypass missing isPrivate authorization checks
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ExecutionAccess private prompt data and metadata
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ImpactRetrieve sensitive information via HTML meta tags
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OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization checks on every request
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| Exploitation Conditions | Remote unauthenticated attacker can access prompts.chat instances running versions prior to commit 7b81836. No special configuration or victim interaction required. Attacker queries API endpoints or accesses HTML meta tags to retrieve private prompt data (version history, content, metadata) without authorization. |
| Impact | Real-world risk is HIGH despite absence of confirmed active exploitation. The CVSS 8.7 score accurately reflects the vulnerability's severity: network-accessible (AV:N), low attack complexity (AC:L), no authentication required (PR:N), and high confidentiality impact (VC:H). The missing authorization checks create a trivially exploitable condition where attackers can enumerate and access private prompts by manipulating API requests or inspecting HTML metadata. SSVC technical impact is significant (information disclosure of user-created private content), and the attack is highly automatable-scripts could systematically harvest private prompt databases. EPSS data not provided, but the combination of public patch availability, detailed advisory from VulnCheck, and GitHub PR visibility creates moderate-to-high likelihood that threat actors will develop enumeration tools. The vulnerability directly undermines the application's core privacy promise, making this a critical priority for any organization running affected versions. Mitigation urgency is amplified by the simplicity of exploitation and potential business impact if proprietary prompt templates are exposed. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An unauthenticated attacker discovers a prompts.chat instance through reconnaissance (Shodan, Google dorking). They craft HTTP requests to API endpoints responsible for retrieving prompt details, systematically incrementing prompt IDs or using predictable identifiers. Because the application fails to validate isPrivate flags, the API returns full content, version history, and change requests for prompts marked private-potentially including proprietary AI instruction templates, sensitive business logic, or customer data embedded in examples. Additionally, the attacker scrapes HTML pages to extract meta tag descriptions and titles that leak private prompt information via SEO metadata. With low technical complexity and no authentication barriers, attackers could automate this process to harvest entire databases of private intellectual property within minutes. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Apr 03, 2026
Authorization bypass vulnerabilities in prompts.chat (pre-commit 7b81836) expose private prompt data to unauthenticated remote attackers. Missing isPrivate validation checks across multiple API endpoints and metadata generation functions allow unauthorized retrieval of version history, change requests, examples, content, and HTML meta tag information for prompts marked private. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, though CVSS 8.7 reflects network-accessible, low-complexity attack requiring no privileges. Vendor-released patch available via GitHub commit 7b81836b21.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: Organizations must immediately update to commit 7b81836b214f2796aaf37ded2944eadc978afd35 or any subsequent version that includes this fix. The patch can be obtained from the GitHub repository at https://github.com/f/prompts.chat/commit/7b81836b214f2796aaf37ded2944eadc978afd35, and the associated pull request #1104 (https://github.com/f/prompts.chat/pull/1104) provides implementation context. For self-hosted deployments, pull the latest code from the main branch and rebuild. As an interim mitigation if patching is delayed, consider implementing reverse proxy rules to restrict API endpoint access to authenticated users only, though this workaround may impact legitimate functionality and does not address metadata leakage in HTML responses. Network segmentation to limit exposure of the prompts.chat instance is advisable until patching is complete. Post-patch, conduct an audit to identify potentially compromised private prompts and notify affected users.
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This vulnerability affects prompts.chat, a web application for managing and sharing prompt templates (cpe:2.3:a:f:prompts.chat). The root cause (CWE-862: Missing Authorization) stems from inadequate server-side access control enforcement. The application relies on isPrivate flags to distinguish public versus private prompts, but multiple API endpoints and the page metadata generation logic fail to verify this flag before returning sensitive data. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N) confirms these endpoints are network-accessible without authentication, and the straightforward exploitation path requires no specialized conditions. This represents a classic broken access control scenario where client-side or database-level privacy indicators exist but backend authorization logic is incomplete, allowing direct object reference attacks against private resources.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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2DescriptionCVE.org
prompts.chat prior to commit 7b81836 contains multiple authorization bypass vulnerabilities due to missing isPrivate checks across API endpoints and page metadata generation that allow unauthorized users to access sensitive data associated with private prompts. Attackers can exploit these missing authorization checks to retrieve private prompt version history, change requests, examples, current content, and metadata including titles and descriptions exposed via HTML meta tags.
Executive ViewAI
prompts.chat contains an authorization bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-22663, CVSS 8.7) that allows unauthenticated attackers to access private prompt data, including version history and sensitive content, through missing validation checks on API endpoints. Organizations using prompts.chat risk exposure of proprietary or confidential prompt information to any network attacker without authentication, potentially compromising intellectual property and sensitive business logic embedded in prompts.
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
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