Adversarial images can redirect web agents’ browser actions

WebMirage optimized localized image perturbations against the full agent pipeline, causing attacker-selected actions across changing webpage layouts.

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Wanjing Han · Levi Taiji Li · Mu Zhang · Yue Jiang · Guanhong Tao

University of Utah

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Han et al.

The authors framed attacks on vision-grounded web agents as a complete grounding-to-execution problem.

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Adversarial image perturbations hijack web agents from visual grounding to browser execution with 91.9% attack success.

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