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Empirical Analysis of Large Vision-Language Models against Goal Hijacking via Visual Prompt Injection

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arxiv 2408.03554 v1 pith:LQHW7SLY submitted 2024-08-07 cs.CL cs.CRcs.LG

classification cs.CLcs.CRcs.LG
keywords analysisghvpiinjectionlvlmsprompttaskvisualability
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We explore visual prompt injection (VPI) that maliciously exploits the ability of large vision-language models (LVLMs) to follow instructions drawn onto the input image. We propose a new VPI method, "goal hijacking via visual prompt injection" (GHVPI), that swaps the execution task of LVLMs from an original task to an alternative task designated by an attacker. The quantitative analysis indicates that GPT-4V is vulnerable to the GHVPI and demonstrates a notable attack success rate of 15.8%, which is an unignorable security risk. Our analysis also shows that successful GHVPI requires high character recognition capability and instruction-following ability in LVLMs.

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  1. SoK: Systematizing LLM Prompt Security: Taxonomies, Datasets, and Unified Evaluation of Attacks and Defenses

    cs.CR 2025-10 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    A systemization of LLM jailbreak security that adds linked taxonomies, an evaluation platform, and JailbreakDB, while its main attack–defense comparison results remain deferred.

  2. VLAGuard: A Framework for Evaluating and Mitigating Physical Attention Hijacking in Vision-Language-Action Robots within Wireless Sensor Networks

    cs.RO 2026-08 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

    APFT fine-tuning reduces OpenVLA failure under attention-hijacking patches from 100% to 25.9% in simulation and raises real-world success from 23.0% to 67.4%.

  3. Invisible Injections: Exploiting Vision-Language Models Through Steganographic Prompt Embedding

    cs.CR 2025-07 reject novelty 5.0 of 10

    Steganographic prompt injection is reported to covertly manipulate vision-language models with up to 31.8% success, but the evidence is not reproducible.

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