arXiv:2602. 09222v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) based web agents are increasingly deployed to automate complex online tasks by directly interacting with web sites and performing actions on users' behalf.
By Georgios Syros, Evan Rose, Brian Grinstead, Christoph Kerschbaumer, William Robertson, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Alina Oprea
arXiv:2607. 08147v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous web agents promise to automate everyday browsing tasks, but inherit one of the web's oldest attack surfaces.
By Corban Villa, Alp Eren Ozdarendeli, Sijun Tan, Raluca Ada Popa
WAInjectBench introduces the first comprehensive benchmark for detecting prompt injection attacks against web agents, offering a fine‑grained categorization of threats and datasets that include malicious and benign text and image samples. The study systematically evaluates both text‑based and image‑based detection methods across multiple scenarios, revealing that detectors perform well on attacks with explicit instructions or visible perturbations but struggle with subtle or instruction‑free attacks. The authors release the datasets and code to facilitate further research in this area.
By Yinuo Liu, Xilong Wang, Ruohan Xu, Yuqi Jia, Neil Zhenqiang Gong
arXiv:2509.11250v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents are increasingly deployed to interact with online web services, yet their exposure to open-world conten...
By Yitong Zhang, Ximo Li, Liyi Cai, Jia Li
arXiv:2512. 23128v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Web-based agents powered by large language models are increasingly used for tasks such as email management or professional networking.
By Karolina Korgul, Yushi Yang, Arkadiusz Drohomirecki, Piotr B{\l}aszczyk, Will Howard, Lukas Aichberger, Chris Russell, Philip H. S. Torr, Adam Mahdi, Adel Bibi
arXiv:2607. 18659v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based browser agents are rapidly changing the threat landscape for web security.
By Behzad Ousat, Nikita Turkmen, Lalchandra Rampersaud, Dillan Bailey, Amin Kharraz
arXiv:2606. 13385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Web agents driven by large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world environments, where they operate over untrusted web content and execute actions with direct consequences.
By Zihao Wang, Yiming Li, Yutong Wu, Zheyu Liu, Kangjie Chen, Fok Kar Wai, Pin-Yu Chen, Vrizlynn L. L. Thing, Bo Li, Dacheng Tao, Tianwei Zhang
arXiv:2607. 05277v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Defenses that provide security guarantees against prompt injection attacks rely on strict isolation between trusted instructions and untrusted data.
By Kristina Nikoli\'c, Egor Zverev, Javier Rando, Matthew Jagielski, Edoardo Debenedetti, Florian Tram\`er
LLM-based browser agents are rapidly changing the threat landscape for web security. Unlike traditional automation frameworks that execute predefined scripts, these agents can autonomously navigate websites, reason about page content, and interact with web interfaces using natural-language instructions.
arXiv:2606. 04425v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern agentic systems transform LLMs from session-bounded assistants into stateful systems that persist and evolve shared world state across sessions through memories, filesystems, tools, and other long-lived contextual artifacts.
By Yuanbo Xie, Tianyun Liu, Yingjie Zhang, Suchen Liu, Yulin Li, Liya Su, Tingwen Liu
arXiv:2608. 04565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based search agents are widely used for information-seeking tasks, but their reliance on external tool returns introduces a critical security risk: web content retrieved during execution is untrusted, exposing agents to prompt injection and goal hijacking.
By Xuebin Li, Hanqing Zhao, Siyuan Liang, Kejiang Chen, Weiming Zhang, Dacheng Tao, Nenghai Yu
arXiv:2606. 12737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving into agentic systems that interact with external tools and environments, introducing new security risks such as indirect prompt injection attacks through untrusted external sources.
By Pengfei He, Lesly Miculicich, Vishesh Sharma, Ash Fox, George Lee, Jiliang Tang, Tomas Pfister, Long T. Le