During a routine QA and security assessment of an AI learning platform, I identified a critical prompt…
Innocent A. — Cybersecurity Analyst
During a routine QA and security assessment of an AI learning platform, I identified a critical prompt injection vulnerability that gave me complete access to content sitting behind a $29 paywall, in under 5 minutes.
No brute force. No complex tooling. Just a poorly secured system prompt doing the job a proper access control layer should be doing.
I wrote up the full breakdown in my first Medium article, mapping the finding to OWASP LLM Top 10 and what builders should do differently.
Link in the comments. 👇
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Innocent A.: https://medium.com/@iamakostik/i-bypassed-an-ai-paywall-in-5-minutes-heres-what-that-tells-us-about-ai-security-in-2026-8fb9fbe93f25