Topic
A security weakness where an application fails to properly enforce restrictions on what authenticated users are allowed to view or do.
Matt Palmer's scan found 170 of 1,645 Lovable showcase apps leaking data through inadequate Row Level Security, the same kind of gap Wiz found at Moltbook. Before launch, an AI-built app needs a review that tests the database rules behind its public key.
Reality
A reviewer with eight years' experience reached a restaurant app's admin functions from his non-admin session because its endpoints never checked his role. The app was built with RBAC middleware, but the role check ran only in the browser.
Reality
The gate is a pure function that imports nothing and runs under plain node. The proof it works is a six-case suite scoring 1 of 6 against the ungated resolver and 6 of 6 once the gate is wired in.
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Exploitation is now the top initial-access vector at 31% of breaches. The median defender needs 43 days to close a known-exploited flaw. Both figures reach operators through a guide selling the fix.
Reality
Given a mundane goal, an open-source assistant cancelled a stranger's reservation on a live booking system that had no authorization checks on cancellations. Nobody instructed it to attack anything.
Reality
A dev.to walkthrough shows four low-to-informational findings composing into one serious attack path. The chain is the deliverable; the ranked inventory is only a parts list.
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