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Morning Edition · Friday, September 18, 2026Published at 2:27 AM EDT · New York
A Security Firm Says an AI Agent Chained a Forum Bug Into OpenAI Account Access
Hacktron reports remote code execution on OpenAI's community forum and a single sign-on flaw that extended the compromise to ChatGPT and Codex, with OpenAI confirming a fix about 14 hours after the report.
The security firm Hacktron published an account of obtaining remote code execution (the ability to run arbitrary code on a target system) and administrative access on the Discourse forum hosted at community.openai.com. The important part is…
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