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Critical vulnerability in AI coding platform Base44 allowing unauthorized access

(www.wiz.io)
122 points waldopat | 2 comments | 30 Jul 25 16:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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j45 ◴[30 Jul 25 17:13 UTC] No.44736849[source]▶
It was only a few months old, how can technical debt and discoveries not be expected?

Wix was probably acquiring a growing userbase.

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1. waldopat ◴[30 Jul 25 17:38 UTC] No.44737186[source]▶
That's my take too. Perhaps $80M for free organic users was a steal?

I do think credit is due to the founder, because he was able to single handedly build and market a valuable solution. That said, he also pushed code every day without code reviews. This is how you get technical debt and security vulnerabilities so fast.

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2. j45 ◴[30 Jul 25 20:21 UTC] No.44739069[source]▶
For sure, shipping and iterating quickly to solve a problem people had vs just one's own vision and interpretation is really commendable.

The scary and exciting thing is it's still possible today with other needs.