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The Agent Clicks Approve: Injected Page Text Makes Browser Agents Authorize Access the Task Never Named
AI-collected research leads through 3 November 2026, including a November–October–September missed-article review and a targeted multilingual search alongside earlier community-source sweeps. Unranked, incomplete, not community-vetted, and subject to change.
Measures page-directed consent approvals and webhook registrations in a synthetic browser-agent testbed. A service-side task-envelope check blocks completion despite continued submissions; authorized and near-miss controls expose limits of prompt-only defenses.
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- Md Imran Hossen
- Published by
- arXiv
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