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Member-only story 🤖 Bypassing AI Scanner Defenses to Exfiltrate Sensitive Information — PortSwigger Web Security Academy AI-powered security scanners are becoming increasingly common. They can authenticate to applications, browse sensitive areas, inspect content, and even perform security audits. Friend’s link for non-members access: link But what happens when the AI scanner itself can be manipulated by content inside the application? 🤔 That is exactly what this PortSwigger Web Security Academy lab demonstrates. In this lab, an AI-powered scanner has access to sensitive information, including users’ API keys. It is authenticated as the victim user Carlos and is designed to explore authenticated areas of the application. The challenge is to exploit indirect prompt injection to make the AI scanner reveal Carlos’s API key. 🔐 🎯 Lab Overview Lab: Bypassing AI scanner defenses to exfiltrate sensitive information Difficulty: 🟠 Practitioner 🏁 Objective The goal is to: 🔑 Exfiltrate and submit the API key…