In version 3.83 of binary-husky/gpt_academic, a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability exists in the Markdown_Translate.get_files_from_everything() API. This vulnerability is exploited through the HotReload(Markdown翻译中) plugin function, which allows downloading arbitrary web hosts by only checking if the link starts with 'http'. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to abuse the victim GPT Academic's Gradio Web server's credentials to access unauthorized web resources.
The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.