perplexity
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Audited by Snyk on Aug 17, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUM
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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 itsquery/turn/--filecontent 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
MEDIUMThird-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
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