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v1/embeddings

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What is this endpoint?

v1/embeddings

OpenAI Embeddings API

What an attacker could do

An exposed OpenAI-compatible embeddings endpoint tied to your key lets attackers generate embeddings at your expense and validate the key, enabling cost abuse and data inference attacks.

How to defend it

Proxy embedding requests through an authenticated service with per-user quotas, keep keys server-side, and monitor the provider account for anomalous usage.

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