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Brave discloses hidden-HTML prompt injection in Opera Neon, fixed within a week of re-engagement

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Brave reports that concealed elements in page markup could instruct Opera Neon's assistant, when asked about a page, to pull data such as email addresses from the user's other logged-in sites. Reported via Bugcrowd on 2025-10-14 and initially closed as not applicable, Opera then deployed a fix on 2025-10-21 that Brave confirmed.

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It adds a third agentic browser to the pattern of cross-site actions triggered by page content.

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  • Timeline: reported 2025-10-14; closed as not applicable 2025-10-17; fix deployed and confirmed 2025-10-21; Opera published details 2025-10-23.Disclosure timeline

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