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Brave discloses indirect prompt injection in Perplexity Comet agentic browser

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Brave reports that Comet passed webpage content to its assistant without separating it from user instructions, so hidden text on a page could direct the agent to act across the user's logged-in sites, including reading email-based login codes. Brave reported on 2025-07-25; Perplexity shipped fixes that Brave judged incomplete, and Brave re-reported after publication.

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Agentic browsers act with the user's cookies, so page content can reach across sites that the same-origin policy normally separates.

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  • Timeline: reported 2025-07-25; initial fix 2025-07-27; fix deemed incomplete 2025-07-28; patching confirmed 2025-08-13; later testing indicated incomplete mitigation.Disclosure timeline

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