GPT Academic version 3.83 is vulnerable to a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability through its HotReload plugin function, which calls the crazy_utils.get_files_from_everything() API without proper sanitization. This allows attackers to exploit the vulnerability to abuse the victim GPT Academics Gradio Web servers credentials to access unauthorized web resources.
The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination.