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title: "Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug to OpenAI that would let attackers run code in logged-in sessions of all who opened the hacker's ChatGPT share link (Swati Khandelwal/The Hacker News)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/researchers-are-paid-5k-for-reporting-a-bug-to-openai-that-would-let-e77dabdc
published: 2026-10-31T19:01:11.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug to OpenAI that would let attackers run code in logged-in sessions of all who opened the hacker's ChatGPT share link (Swati Khandelwal/The Hacker News)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-10-31 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/researchers-are-paid-5k-for-reporting-a-bug-to-openai-that-would-let-e77dabdc

Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News : Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug to OpenAI that would let attackers run code in logged-in sessions of all who opened the hacker's ChatGPT share link — A malicious ChatGPT share link could run an attacker's code in the logged-in session of anyone who opened it …

In this story: [OpenAI](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/openai), [ChatGPT](https://frontiernewswire.com/models/chatgpt)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261031/p11#a261031p11)

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