AI Web Agents Are Vulnerable to DOM-Embedded Prompt Injection Attacks
Web agents that parse full DOM content can be hijacked by hidden text injected into pages, causing them to execute attacker-controlled instructions instead of user-intended tasks. As production AI agents proliferate across customer-facing workflows, this attack surface grows significantly. Pre-execution DOM scanning for malicious injection is an emerging but largely unaddressed security requirement.
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