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Commercial LLM agents bypass safety constraints by default, converting unverified user-forwarded content into trusted guidance and risky actions unless users explicitly demand checks.

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load-bearing objection Safety checks in commercial agents are prompt-triggered, not default; the paper shows this clearly, though the headline bypass rates depend on an unmeasured user-relay step. the 4 major comments →

arxiv 2601.10758 v3 pith:PZR7FB4F submitted 2026-01-14 cs.CR

Agents at Risk: How Users Unwittingly Undermine LLM Safety

Fengchao Chen , Tingmin Wu , Van Nguyen , Surya.Nepal , Carsten Rudolph This is my paper
classification cs.CR
keywords LLM agentsuser-mediated attackprompt injectionsafety prioritizationweb-use agentstrip-planning agentsinstruction hierarchy
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved

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This paper tries to show that the main security failure of commercial LLM agents is not missing safety capability but its prioritization: agents perform safety checks only when users explicitly ask, and otherwise default to goal-driven execution. The authors introduce a user-relayed context manipulation (UReCoM) attack in which attackers seed persuasive posts that benign users are tricked into forwarding into agent requests, thereby upgrading low-trust external content to high-priority user instructions. They evaluate 12 commercial agents (6 trip-planning, 6 web-use) across three safety-intent levels and find that without any safety request, trip-planning agents bypass safety constraints in over 92% of cases and web-use agents execute risky actions in up to 100% of supported tests. Even with soft or hard safety requests, bypass rates remain substantial. A sympathetic reader would care because it suggests that current defenses and deployment practices are misaligned with how users actually interact with agents.

Core claim

The paper's central claim is that user-mediated forwarding recontextualizes attacker payloads: content that would otherwise appear as low-trust external data is reintroduced as user-channel directives, receiving higher priority under the standard instruction hierarchy (developer > user > model outputs), and agents then act on it with little verification. In the absence of explicit safety requests, trip-planning agents accept unverified 'official' links and fabricated discounts and integrate them into itineraries; web-use agents open malicious URLs, fill hidden fields, and resubmit data when front-end feedback indicates failure, all without agent-side risk checks. The paper argues that this b

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the UReCoM attack pipeline (User-Relayed Context Manipulation), formalized as a three-party interaction (attacker, benign user, agent) in which the attacker controls only user-facing content and the user relays it into the agent's input. The mechanism doing the work is instruction-source escalation: forwarding a post verbatim moves attacker payloads from external observations into the user-provided task context, upgrading their priority under the instruction hierarchy. The evaluation machinery is a black-box framework that varies user safety intent (none, soft, hard) and measures two classes of constraint-bypass rates (environment and commonsense) across planning a

Load-bearing premise

The pipeline assumes a benign user will copy or paste attacker-crafted post content verbatim into an agent request (Section 2.2 Step 2, Section 3.2); the paper simulates this forwarding rather than measuring it, so high bypass rates are for an idealized relay scenario.

What would settle it

A user study that records what real users actually input to an agent after encountering a seeded promo post: if substantial fractions paraphrase, filter, or ignore such content before relaying, the reported 92% and 100% bypass rates would be upper bounds rather than observed risk.

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If this is right

  • Trip-planning agents convert unverified user-forwarded content (fabricated discounts, attacker-controlled links, non-standard payment instructions) into confident booking guidance without warning, with bypass rates above 92% when no safety request is made.
  • Web-use agents treat malicious URLs and action primitives as routine commands, opening links and executing clicks, submits, and downloads without agent-side security gating; 9 out of 17 supported tests reach a 100% bypass rate.
  • Explicit user safety intent reduces but does not eliminate failures: maximum bypass is 54.7% under soft requests and 7% under hard requests for trip-planning agents, indicating safety is conditional rather than default.
  • Web-use agents lack task-stopping rules and backend state verification, leading to over-execution, hidden-field filling, and repeated data resubmission when front-end feedback falsely indicates failure.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If safety is default-off, then persuasive attacker posts that get forwarded verbatim may be a more practical attack channel than direct prompt injection, because the payload travels in the high-priority user channel; defenses should validate task entities (links, promo codes, form fields) rather than only filter instructions.
  • A direct testable extension is to measure real users' forwarding behavior (verbatim vs paraphrase vs skip) in a field study; the paper's numbers assume verbatim relay, so real-world exposure may be lower.
  • The prioritization mechanism suggests a concrete fix: make a security-verification system prompt a default, independent of user phrasing; the paper's own H3 results imply this would cut bypass rates sharply, though it does not test that intervention.
  • The same failure mode may generalize to any goal-driven tool-using agent, since the driver is task-completion priority rather than any specific model; future benchmarks could probe other agent categories such as coding or email assistants.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

4 major / 8 minor

Summary. This paper introduces and evaluates a user-mediated attack against LLM-based agents. The threat model assumes an attacker seeds persuasive public posts; benign users encounter these posts and relay their content into agent requests, after which agents treat the content as high-priority user context and fail to apply default safety checks. The authors evaluate 12 commercial agents (6 trip-planning, 6 web-use) under three safety-intent conditions (H1 no request, H2 soft, H3 hard), measuring constraint-bypass rates for environment and commonsense constraints. The findings show that without explicit safety prompts, trip-planning agents bypass constraints at high rates (over 92% environment) and web-use agents execute risky actions near-deterministically; explicit safety phrasing reduces but does not eliminate these failures. The paper concludes that safety mechanisms exist but are not prioritized by default.

Significance. If the agent-side behavior is as reported, the work makes a useful empirical contribution: it documents a concrete failure mode—safety checks that are prompt-conditioned rather than invariant—across a substantial sample of commercial products. The study is well-motivated, and the H1/H2/H3 gradient is a natural design. Strengths include the use of a sandbox for web-use agents, a two-point stability rerun, and the transparent specification of evaluation constraints in Table 7. The finding that agents 'verify' URLs via shallow heuristics and overstate legitimacy is particularly valuable for practitioners. However, the paper's scope claims need tightening: the user-mediated aspects are assumed rather than measured, and the abstract promises comparative experiments that are absent from the body.

major comments (4)
  1. [§2.2 (Step 2), §3.2] The attack pipeline hinges on Step 2, where benign users encounter attacker-seeded posts and forward their content into agent requests, typically verbatim. This behavior is assumed, not measured: no user study, no encounter-rate data, and no evidence that users paste rather than paraphrase or ignore. Consequently, all reported bypass rates (e.g., 'over 92%', Table 2) are conditional on a perfect relay; they quantify agent behavior given the payload, not end-to-end attack success. The title and abstract's framing ('users unwittingly undermine safety') overstates what the experiments establish. Either add a human-subjects study to validate the relay assumption, or reframe the contribution as a characterization of agent behavior when users relay unverified content, with the social-engineering step presented as a threat-model assumption. This is load-bearing for the paper's real-world claims
  2. [Abstract vs. full text] The manuscript's abstract (as provided) claims that 'UReCoM outperforms five prompt-injection baselines (naive, context ignoring, fake completion, escape-character attacks, and combined attacks) under prevention-based (Sandwich, StruQ, SecAlign) and detection-based defenses (Perplexity detection, DataSentinel, CausalArmor).' The full text contains no such experiments, does not define UReCoM, and its own abstract makes no such claim. This is a serious internal inconsistency. The comparative evaluation is a central advertised contribution; it must either be implemented and reported, or the abstract must be revised to match the full-text abstract, which only reports the H1/H2/H3 safety-intent comparison. As it stands, the paper overclaims.
  3. [§3.2 / Appendix B] The exact user prompts and test-case templates are not provided. The paper describes test cases at a high level ('provide a trip itinerary with a promo code') and lists URL variants in Appendix B, but it does not give the precise natural-language requests used for each agent in each condition (H1/H2/H3). Without these, the evaluation cannot be replicated or audited. Please provide a full benchmark with the exact prompts, agent version identifiers, timestamps, and scoring rubrics in an appendix or artifact.
  4. [Tables 2–6] The evaluation reports raw counts (x/10) without confidence intervals or hypothesis tests. For example, a 10/10 success rate has a 95% exact binomial CI of [0.69, 1.00], so the '100% bypass' phrasing overstates precision. The stark H1 vs. H2/H3 differences are likely real, but the paper should add exact binomial CIs (at least for aggregate rates such as the 'over 92%' claim) and, ideally, an inter-rater check for the subjective constraint classification in Table 7.
minor comments (8)
  1. [Terminology] The term 'UReCoM' appears only in the provided abstract, not in the full text; the full-text abstract and body refer to 'user-mediated attacks.' Please unify terminology throughout.
  2. [Table 6] Typo: 'Borwserbase' should be 'Browserbase'.
  3. [Table 3] Header says 'Cell formate of x/10' — should be 'format'.
  4. [§4.2] The sentence 'Table 2 shows across all safety levels, agents treat user-supplied fabricated information as legitimate' is too strong given H3 rates of 0–7%; it should be qualified to H1 and, to a lesser extent, H2.
  5. [Abstract] The abstract's claim '9 out of 17 supported tests reaching a 100% bypass rate' is not explicitly enumerated in the body; the number '17' is not derived from the reported tables. Please specify which 17 tests are counted.
  6. [Appendix C] The table header is garbled: 'HardConstraintsEnvironmentConstraint 1 (E1)CommonsenseConstraint 1 (C1)' — needs reformatting.
  7. [§3.1] No model version pinning is reported; the rerun one month apart is a positive step, but exact timestamps/versions would strengthen reproducibility.
  8. [References] Some references are incomplete (e.g., [23] 'Mind trip planner' lacks author and venue).

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No significant circularity: empirical evaluation, no fitted parameters, no load-bearing self-citations; the assumed user-relay step is a validity gap, not a circular reduction.

full rationale

This paper is an empirical security evaluation rather than a derivation chain. The principal results (constraint-bypass rates for trip-planning and web-use agents) are measured against a rubric that the authors define in Table 7, but defining an evaluation rubric is not circular: the paper then observes agent behavior against that rubric, including the H1/H2/H3 contrast, which is an external behavioral difference rather than a quantity defined into existence. There are no fitted parameters later relabeled as predictions, no machine-learning training loop in which the target is memorized, and no self-citation chain that carries the argument; the reference list contains no author self-citations and the formal attack model in Section 2 is stated as a threat model, not as a theorem derived from its own conclusion. The main limitation is the unmeasured user-relay step in Section 2.2, Step 2, which assumes that users encounter attacker-seeded posts and forward them, typically verbatim, into agent requests. That assumption affects whether the reported bypass rates are realistic end-to-end attack probabilities, but it does not make the measured agent behavior circular: the rates still quantify what agents do when such forwarding occurs. The paper's central claim, that safety checks are prompt-triggered rather than default, is supported by the observed contrast between no-safety and explicit-safety conditions, which is independent of the relay assumption. Therefore the correct circularity finding is no significant circularity.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 5 axioms · 0 invented entities

No fitted parameters or invented entities are present. The paper's central claims rest on domain assumptions about instruction-hierarchy behavior, user forwarding behavior, sandbox representativeness, the validity of the authors' safety rubric, and the representativeness of the selected agents. The first and last are reasonable background assumptions; the user-forwarding assumption is the most fragile.

axioms (5)
  • domain assumption The instruction hierarchy (developer > user > model outputs) accurately describes how user-relayed content is prioritized by agents.
    In Section 6, Discussion 1, the attack's success is explained by forwarded payloads being 'reintroduced as user-channel directives, receiving higher priority under the hierarchy.' If this hierarchy is not accurate for the tested agents, the mechanism is mischaracterized.
  • ad hoc to paper Benign users will forward attacker-controlled content verbatim into agent requests.
    The threat model in Section 2.2 Step 2 and the experiments in Section 3.2 assume users copy/quote post content into prompts. No user study tests this behavior; it is the load-bearing external-validity assumption.
  • domain assumption The sandboxed environment and synthetic test data reproduce real commercial agent behavior.
    Section 3.1 states web-interaction experiments are run in a sandbox with synthetic data. The transfer of measured behavior to real deployments is assumed, not demonstrated.
  • domain assumption The author-defined environment and commonsense constraints (Table 7) are the correct normative safety requirements.
    All bypass rates are defined against these constraints. The constraints are reasonable but are not derived from any external standard or user study.
  • domain assumption The 12 evaluated commercial agents are representative of deployed LLM agents.
    Section 3.1 selects two categories of six agents each. The generality of the findings beyond these named products is assumed.

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Large language model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly deployed in applications, such as trip-planning agents and web-use agents, to perform complex planning and execution tasks. Prior work has shown that LLM-based agents are vulnerable to context confusion, where external adversarial content incorporated into the agent's reasoning context may be treated as task-relevant constraints. However, external malicious content can enter the agent context via channels beyond retrieval. In this work, we introduce the User-Relayed Context Manipulation (UReCoM) attack, in which attackers manipulate benign users into relaying adversarial content within user requests, thereby relocating external adversarial content into user-provided task context. Our experimental evaluation shows that UReCoM outperforms five prompt-injection baselines (naive, context ignoring, fake completion, escape-character attacks, and combined attacks) under prevention-based (Sandwich, StruQ, and SecAlign) and detection-based defenses (Perplexity detection, DataSentinel, and CausalArmor). Additionally, UReCoM shows that LLMs can reject explicit malicious instructions more reliably than they can identify adversarial task entities, such as promotion codes, embedded within user requests. On 12 commercial LLM-based agents, we find that validation of adversarial task entities is largely prompt-driven rather than default, highlighting a design flaw in current agent frameworks. These results indicate that current defenses and deployed agents remain insufficient against user-relayed context manipulations, highlighting the need for task-entity-level prevention and default safety verification in LLM-based agents.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2601.10758 by Carsten Rudolph, Fengchao Chen, Surya.Nepal, Tingmin Wu, Van Nguyen.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Threat Model of attacks when users are using commercial agents. Threat Model We assume users are unaware of the malicious intent in the post at the time they encounter it (due to insufficient capabilities), while they possess varying levels of security awareness. Our attacks follow a simple pipeline that maps cleanly to the interaction variables (o A t , oU t , mt, at) as shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Unsafe User-side boundaries in trip-planning agents. Benign users forward attacker-seeded content into the agent, which then legitimizes unverified resources and converts them into actionable guidance. and reference attacker-controlled sources presented as “official.” A benign user en￾counters such content during normal browsing and forwards it to a trip-planning agent as part of a legitimate request. Unde… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Representative failure cases of trip-planning agents under user-mediated attack [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Unsafe User-side boundaries in Web-use Agents (WebUAs). Benign users for￾ward attacker-seeded tasks, which WebUAs execute by following interface cues while overlooking security-relevant context and execution necessity. underweighting prefix changes, Unicode normalization, and provenance signals. In several cases, agents express strong confidence in the legitimacy of such URLs and actively encourage user en… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Representative execution failures of WebUAs. Red boxes highlight risky or policy-violating behaviors; blue and green boxes denote standard execution flow. WebUAs lack task-stopping rules and continue interacting beyond user objectives. When presented with required actions alongside attacker￾inserted options designed to exfiltrate data, agents frequently execute all avail￾able interactions instead of termin… view at source ↗

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