{"id":10502,"date":"2026-10-23T10:17:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/critical-x402-sdk-flaw-could-let-malicious-apis-drain-ai-agents-token-balances\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T10:17:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:17:43","slug":"critical-x402-sdk-flaw-could-let-malicious-apis-drain-ai-agents-token-balances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/critical-x402-sdk-flaw-could-let-malicious-apis-drain-ai-agents-token-balances\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical x402 SDK Flaw Could Let Malicious APIs Drain AI Agents\u2019 Token Balances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bAI agents paying for API calls with the\u00a0x402 SDKs\u00a0could sign a payment for their full balance of a supported token if a malicious API asked for it,\u00a0security firm V12 said\u00a0on October 22.<\/p>\n<p>The cause was the SDKs&#8217; default client, which set no spending limit until releases on August 18 added one. The risk was limited to agents who automatically signed payments and whose apps set\u00a0AI agents paying for API calls with the\u00a0x402 SDKs\u00a0could sign a payment for their full balance of a supported token if a malicious API asked for it,\u00a0security firm V12 said\u00a0on October 22.<\/p>\n<p>The cause was the SDKs&#8217; default client, which set no spending limit until releases on August 18 added one. The risk was limited to agents who automatically signed payments and whose apps set\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bAI agents paying for API calls with the\u00a0x402 SDKs\u00a0could sign a payment for their full balance of a supported token if a malicious API asked for it,\u00a0security firm V12 said\u00a0on October 22. The cause was the SDKs&#8217; default client, which set no spending limit until releases on August 18 added one. The risk was limited&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/critical-x402-sdk-flaw-could-let-malicious-apis-drain-ai-agents-token-balances\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Critical x402 SDK Flaw Could Let Malicious APIs Drain AI Agents\u2019 Token Balances<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}