Vulnerability Snapshot
This advisory is rated CRITICAL — exploitation is trivial or already observed in the wild and impact is severe. Patch immediately, not on the next maintenance window.
Affected technology: Chrome.
Executive Summary
Lax extension permissions and improper trust implementation allow attackers to inject prompts in the Claude Chrome extension. The post Vulnerability in Claude Extension for Chrome Exposes AI Agent to Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek. ]]>
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