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10. Sep. 2026
Nearly 1 in 10 Exposed LiteLLM Gateways Accepted the Example „sk-1234“ Admin Key
Nearly one in ten of the internet-facing LiteLLM servers that Wiz Research scanned in February accepted sk-1234, the example admin key in LiteLLM’s own setup guide.
LiteLLM is an open-source AI gateway, the software a company puts between its applications and the model providers it pays for. That key is the gateway’s administrator credential.
Anyone who holds it can read every