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Audited by Snyk on Aug 17, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUM
Full Analysis

MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

  • Third-party content exposure detected (medium risk: 0.30). In the ask/direct-tool runtime, the agent ingests outsider-authored free text indirectly as its query/turn/--file content and then sends it to Perplexity WebUI for web research, where returned third-party snippets (attacker-authored web content) are included in the model prompt/response payload.

Issues (1)

W011
MEDIUM

Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Aug 17, 2026, 09:30 AM
Issues
1
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