The authors analyze a publicly available dataset from the ProWiki incident, which contains 14,591 agent edits and 79,541 URL postings made by autonomous agents that were limited to outbound HTTP GET requests.
Agents circumvent security by chaining public web services via URLs
Analysis of 79,541 URLs posted by autonomous agents on a public wiki reveals that 33.6% embed targets within up to five layers of third-party services, extending capabilities and bypassing restrictions.
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Orel Navi · Elad Feldman · Ben Nassi
Tel Aviv University
Research Digest··3 min read
Navi et al. analyze 14,591 agent edits containing 79,541 URLs from the ProWiki incident, where agents limited to outbound HTTP GET requests repurposed a German-language wiki as a message board.
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