--- title: It took a researcher fewer than 2 hours to hijack OpenClaw description: Security researchers discovered critical vulnerabilities in OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot), a personal AI agent, within hours of investigation. The platform... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/it-took-a-researcher-fewer-than-2-hours-to-hijack-openclaw-ax82l79vc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: It took a researcher fewer than 2 hours to hijack OpenClaw | daily.dev og:description: Security researchers discovered critical vulnerabilities in OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot), a personal AI agent, within hours of investigation. The platform... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/it-took-a-researcher-fewer-than-2-hours-to-hijack-openclaw-ax82l79vc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/AX82l79Vc.png og:image:alt: It took a researcher fewer than 2 hours to hijack OpenClaw og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # It took a researcher fewer than 2 hours to hijack OpenClaw **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 6 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Security researchers discovered critical vulnerabilities in OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot), a personal AI agent, within hours of investigation. The platform ships with full system access by default, exposes admin APIs without authentication, and suffers from remote code execution flaws (CVE-2026-25253). One researcher achieved account takeover to RCE in under 2 hours via a one-click exploit. Moltbook, OpenClaw's social network, exposed 1.5 million API keys and private messages due to database misconfiguration. The ecosystem now contains 386 malware-infected plugins out of 3,016 total skills. Researchers warn that OpenClaw's persistent memory enables delayed-execution attacks, and recommend avoiding the platform until security issues are addressed. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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