arXiv:2604. 05853v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern text-to-image (T2I) models can now render legible, paragraph-length text, enabling a fundamentally new class of misuse.
By Zonghao Ying, Haowen Dai, Lianyu Hu, Zonglei Jing, Quanchen Zou, Yaodong Yang, Aishan Liu, Xianglong Liu
The paper introduces NarrativeAttack, a jailbreak framework that exploits unified multimodal models (UMMs) by embedding a malicious query within a self‑contained three‑act visual narrative. The attack uses the model’s own image generator to create setup and resolution images, hiding the malicious event as a hidden climax, and concludes with an image‑based guessing game that forces the model to select the relevant answer. Experiments demonstrate that NarrativeAttack outperforms previous methods, achieving up to 88.25% attack success rate on Gemini‑2.5‑Flash, revealing a significant safety vulnerability in UMMs.
By Shaoxiong Guo, Tianyi Du, Lijun Li, Yuyao Wu, Jie Li, Jing Shao
Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved high visual fidelity and broad adoption, but remain vulnerable to safety violations when adversaries exploit them to synthesize illicit content. Existing alignment paradigms, from input sanitization to structural feature pruning, are largely organized around unsafe concepts explicitly exposed during filtering, editing, or localization.
The paper introduces TA-SPA, a black‑box jailbreak method for multimodal large language models that generates transferable perturbations in a text‑anchored semantic space. It combines Text‑Anchored Semantic Factorization (TASF) to separate cross‑modal semantic factors from modality‑specific residuals with Semantic‑Preserving Augmentation (SPA) to diversify harmful target anchors while maintaining semantic consistency. Experiments demonstrate strong attack effectiveness and transferability to commercial MLLMs, with competitive performance against representative defenses.
By Wenyun Li, Guiping Cao, Xiangyuan Lan, Zheng Zhang
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in vision-language interaction, yet their safety alignment remains vulnerable to jailbreak attacks. A key challenge is that s...
DiSCO is a zero‑shot, black‑box defense for text‑to‑image models that operates solely at the prompt level. It expands prompts with a distribution‑guided suffix using beam search and contrastive scoring against safe and unsafe image pools generated by the target model, iteratively refining until safe content is produced. The method improves safety on the I2P benchmark under various red‑teaming attacks, reducing attack success rates by 37.7% and 25.13% while preserving semantic fidelity and image coherence.
By Tong Zhang, Motasem Alfarra, Carlos Hinojosa, Christos Louizos, Bernard Ghanem
The paper introduces COMIC, a reference‑aware safety gate designed for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). COMIC detects the operation requested by a user, identifies visual targets through OCR and open‑vocabulary proposals, and evaluates safety on explicit operation‑target pairs, using max‑risk aggregation and quality‑aware routing to decide whether to allow or block a request. Experiments on several open‑source MLLMs and jailbreak benchmarks show that COMIC improves robustness while maintaining benign utility and efficiency.
By Md Abdullahil Oaphy, Anhao Xiang, Zongxing Xie, Huayue Gu, Chenyu Wang, Honghui Xu
arXiv:2610.00341v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: As Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) transition toward natively unified architectures, evaluating their safety in synergistic harmful image-text generat...
By Bingjun Luo, Jialin Guo, Tony Wang, Siqi Li
The paper investigates how multimodal large language models are more susceptible to prompt injection when adversarial instructions are presented as text rather than as non-textual inputs like images. It proposes a training‑free defense that renders untrusted payloads into typographic images (or audio) before they reach the model, a method called Pictionary. Experiments on ten models and two benchmarks show that this approach significantly lowers attack success rates while maintaining normal functionality, and that fine‑tuning on image‑rendered instructions can further reduce the modality gap.
By Jie Zhang, Andrei Baroian, Jan N. van Rijn, Avital Shafran, Florian Tram\`{e}r
arXiv:2607. 17779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-Image (T2I) generative models have achieved remarkable progress in synthesizing high-quality visual content, yet they remain vulnerable to adversarial misuse, particularly in generating Not-Safe-For-Work (NSFW) images.
By Dongdong Yang, Deyue Zhang, Zhao Liu, Zonghao Ying, Wenzhuo Xu, Jiankai Jin, Xiangzheng Zhang, Quanchen Zou
arXiv:2603. 29418v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Although multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world applications, their instruction-following behavior leaves them vulnerable to prompt injection attacks.
By Meiwen Ding, Song Xia, Chenqi Kong, Xudong Jiang
The paper introduces TempJail, a temporal jailbreak framework targeting image‑to‑video generation models. It exploits a newly identified vulnerability where unsafe semantics arise from the composition of frames over time, rather than from single‑frame violations. By decomposing malicious captions into visual conditions and temporal instructions, and by employing controlled latent perturbations and template rewriting, TempJail achieves a 23.3 % higher attack success rate than prior methods on several commercial models.
By Qi Lu, Zehui Guo, David Yuanda Gan, Zijing Li, Hengda Zhang, Weijun Xu, Qiankun Zhang