arxiv: 2605.08310 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-08 · 💻 cs.CR · cs.AI

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WebTrap: Stealthy Mid-Task Hijacking of Browser Agents During Navigation

Zhichao Liu , Wenbo Pan , Haining Yu , Ge Gao , Tianqing Zhu , Xiaohua Jia

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keywords browser agentsprompt injectionmid-task hijackingweb navigationAI securitystealthy attackslong-horizon tasksagent vulnerabilities

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The pith

Browser agents can be stealthily hijacked mid-task by fusing attack and user goals into a single navigation flow.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper shows that prior prompt injection attacks on browser agents either fail to reach end-to-end goals in complex, long-step environments or cause clear drops in usability by pitting attack goals against user goals. WebTrap instead uses multi-step instruction fusion steering to merge the two goals so the agent executes the attack and then resumes the original task without visible conflict. A context-grounded generation step aligns the injected instructions with the current web environment and system rules to raise success rates. Experiments on two extended browser agent setups confirm high attack success while the original task continues to function normally. The method works by exploiting navigation weaknesses that bind the goals so tightly that standard defenses cannot separate them.

Core claim

WebTrap achieves stealthy mid-task hijacking of browser agents by employing multi-step instruction fusion steering to seamlessly combine attack and user goals, paired with context-grounded generation to match the task environment, resulting in high attack success rates while preserving system usability in extended navigation tasks; the attack exploits navigation vulnerabilities that bind the goals so standard defenses fail to restore normal operation.

What carries the argument

Multi-step instruction fusion steering, which integrates the attack goal into the agent's ongoing task sequence so both are treated as one coherent navigation objective.

Load-bearing premise

That the navigation vulnerabilities allowing tight goal binding in the tested environments are present in real-world browser agents and cannot be undone by standard defenses.

What would settle it

A demonstration that a standard defense mechanism, applied after WebTrap injection, lets the agent finish the user task without ever executing the attacker's goal.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.08310 by Ge Gao, Haining Yu, Tianqing Zhu, Wenbo Pan, Xiaohua Jia, Zhichao Liu.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Motivation of WebTrap. Left: The mid-task hijacking attack means the attack hijacks the agent to complete the attack goal during the task execution, and then resumes the user task as if the attack never happened. Right: We observe that in browser navigation tasks, even simple hijacking instructions can deflect the agent’s actions for one or multiple steps. tasks, adaptive attacks, and defense evaluation [6… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Overview of the WebTrap attack. Through the design of instruction fusion steering and context-grounded enhancement, this method requires only three injections to stealthily hijack the agent mid-task to complete the attacker goal and subsequently resume executing the original task. continue completing gu. Let vi:j denote the sequence of navigation nodes from step i to step j, and let Cg(τ ) ∈ {0, 1} indicat… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Analysis of navigation vulnerabilities and complexity effects. As the action sequence lengthens, the agent’s judgment degrades and it becomes more prone to continuing its historical action logic, while attack success also increases with task complexity. 5.2 Discussion and ablations Behavioral analysis and underlying mechanisms of WebTrap. We analyze the trajectories of the attacked agents, and the results … view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Utility under varying complexities. Benign utility is shown as a dashed reference over the full utility range [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_4.png] view at source ↗

read the original abstract

Browser agents are increasingly deployed in long-horizon tasks, which require executing extended action chains to accomplish user goals. However, this prolonged execution process provides attackers with more opportunities to inject malicious instructions. Existing prompt injection attacks against browser agents expose two key gaps: (1) low effectiveness, as attacks optimized for toy baselines fail to achieve end-to-end goals in real-world scenarios with complex environments and longer steps; (2) weak stealthiness, since most attacks pit the attack goal against the user goal, causing a significant drop in system usability under attack. To address these gaps, we propose WebTrap, a mid-task hijacking injection attack. It employs multi-step instruction fusion steering to seamlessly combine both goals, enabling the agent to resume the original user task after executing the attack goal. Furthermore, we design a context-grounded generation method to align the injected content with the task environment and system instructions, maximizing the hijacking success rate. Extensive experiments on two browser agent tasks, based on extended WASP and InjecAgent environments, demonstrate that our method achieves a high attack success rate while preserving the usability of the original system. We find that WebTrap exploits the agent's navigation vulnerabilities, binding the two goals so tightly that standard defense mechanisms cannot restore the system to normal operation. These findings reveal a critical vulnerability in agent systems during long-horizon tasks that they can be stealthily hijacked.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

WebTrap shows a workable mid-task fusion attack on browser agents that keeps the original task running, but the experiments give too little detail to judge whether it transfers beyond their two extended testbeds.

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WebTrap is a mid-task hijacking attack that uses multi-step instruction fusion steering plus context-grounded generation to let an attacker insert a secondary goal into a long-horizon browser agent run without the agent abandoning the user task. The authors correctly note that earlier prompt-injection work often fails to reach end-to-end success in complex settings or makes the agent visibly choose between goals, hurting usability. Their approach tries to bind the two goals so the agent finishes the attack step and then resumes the original navigation, which is the main technical move here and the part that feels like a genuine step past simple injection baselines.

Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes WebTrap, a mid-task hijacking attack against browser agents performing long-horizon navigation tasks. It introduces multi-step instruction fusion to bind user and attacker goals so the agent can resume the original task after the attack, combined with context-grounded generation to align injections with the environment and system instructions. Experiments on extended versions of the WASP and InjecAgent environments are reported to achieve high attack success rates while preserving usability, with the claim that navigation vulnerabilities make the binding resistant to standard defenses.

Significance. If the results hold under rigorous validation, the work would be significant for agent security: it demonstrates a stealthy prompt-injection vector that maintains system usability during extended tasks, unlike prior attacks that trade off goals. This highlights a practical risk for deployed browser agents and could motivate new defense designs focused on goal-binding during navigation. The empirical focus on two extended environments provides a starting point for reproducible attack studies, though the absence of detailed metrics limits immediate impact.

major comments (3)

[§4] §4 (Experimental Setup): The extensions applied to WASP and InjecAgent (task complexity, state handling, instruction interfaces) are not compared against the original benchmarks or against production browser-agent APIs and safety layers. This is load-bearing for the central claim that 'standard defense mechanisms cannot restore the system to normal operation,' because the reported binding of goals may be an artifact of the extensions rather than a general vulnerability.
[§5] §5 (Results): The abstract and results summary assert 'high attack success rate' and 'preserving the usability of the original system' without reporting concrete metrics, baselines, error bars, statistical significance tests, or exclusion criteria. This prevents assessment of whether the multi-step fusion actually outperforms prior injection methods on the same extended environments.
[§6] §6 (Discussion): The generalization statement that WebTrap 'exploits the agent's navigation vulnerabilities' in real-world settings lacks a concrete test (e.g., ablation on unmodified WASP/InjecAgent or evaluation against deployed agents with different navigation APIs). Without this, the claim that defenses cannot restore normal operation does not transfer beyond the modified testbeds.

minor comments (2)

[§3] The phrase 'multi-step instruction fusion steering' is used without a formal definition, algorithm box, or pseudocode, making it difficult to reproduce the exact fusion procedure.
[Figures] Figure captions for attack-success and usability plots should explicitly state the number of trials, the precise definition of 'usability,' and whether error bars represent standard deviation or confidence intervals.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 1 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment point by point below, with honest indications of where revisions are feasible and where limitations remain.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: [§4] The extensions applied to WASP and InjecAgent (task complexity, state handling, instruction interfaces) are not compared against the original benchmarks or against production browser-agent APIs and safety layers. This is load-bearing for the central claim that 'standard defense mechanisms cannot restore the system to normal operation,' because the reported binding of goals may be an artifact of the extensions rather than a general vulnerability.

Authors: We agree that explicit comparisons to the original benchmarks would strengthen the paper. In the revised manuscript we will add a dedicated subsection in §4 that details the differences between the extended and original environments, showing that core navigation and state-handling logic is retained while task horizons are lengthened to support mid-task evaluation. We also acknowledge that production APIs are largely closed-source and inaccessible for direct testing; however, the goal-binding effect we observe arises from the multi-step instruction fusion technique itself, which targets fundamental properties of long-horizon navigation present in both open benchmarks and documented commercial agent designs. We will clarify this distinction in the text. revision: partial
Referee: [§5] The abstract and results summary assert 'high attack success rate' and 'preserving the usability of the original system' without reporting concrete metrics, baselines, error bars, statistical significance tests, or exclusion criteria. This prevents assessment of whether the multi-step fusion actually outperforms prior injection methods on the same extended environments.

Authors: We apologize for the insufficient quantitative detail in the abstract and high-level summary. The full §5 already contains the requested elements: attack success rates, usability scores, baseline comparisons to prior injection methods, error bars across repeated trials, and statistical significance tests. In the revision we will update the abstract and the opening paragraph of §5 to explicitly state the key numerical results and direct readers to the corresponding tables and figures for complete metrics, baselines, error bars, and exclusion criteria. revision: yes
Referee: [§6] The generalization statement that WebTrap 'exploits the agent's navigation vulnerabilities' in real-world settings lacks a concrete test (e.g., ablation on unmodified WASP/InjecAgent or evaluation against deployed agents with different navigation APIs). Without this, the claim that defenses cannot restore normal operation does not transfer beyond the modified testbeds.

Authors: We accept that an ablation on the unmodified environments would improve transferability. The revised manuscript will include such an ablation study demonstrating WebTrap performance on the original WASP and InjecAgent benchmarks. For deployed production agents, direct evaluation is not possible due to proprietary APIs; we will expand §6 to discuss how the navigation vulnerabilities (context accumulation and goal persistence across steps) are inherent to long-horizon agent designs and therefore likely to generalize. We stand by the experimental finding that standard defenses fail to unbind the fused goals in our testbeds. revision: partial

standing simulated objections not resolved

Direct empirical evaluation against closed-source production browser-agent APIs and their safety layers, which are not publicly accessible for controlled experimentation.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: empirical attack proposal without derivations or self-referential reductions

full rationale

The paper presents WebTrap as a proposed mid-task hijacking attack using multi-step instruction fusion and context-grounded generation, evaluated empirically on extended WASP and InjecAgent environments. No equations, mathematical derivations, parameter fitting, or first-principles results are claimed or present. Attack success rates and usability preservation are reported from experiments rather than derived from inputs by construction. No self-citations serve as load-bearing premises that reduce to unverified prior claims by the same authors, and no ansatzes or uniqueness theorems are invoked. The work is self-contained as an empirical security study; claims rest on observed outcomes in the tested setups, not on circular reductions of any kind.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on domain assumptions about agent instruction following in long-horizon navigation rather than new mathematical constructs or fitted parameters.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Browser agents execute extended action chains without strong internal verification of instruction provenance.
Invoked implicitly when claiming that fused instructions can bind attack and user goals without detection.

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12 Appendix Table of contents A WebTrap algorithm and prompts14 A.1 Full attack algorithm

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It does not expose the true attacker goal and appears simply as normal, environment-related navigation guidance

Lure trap:This trap only guides the agent from its current navigation path to the next injection point. It does not expose the true attacker goal and appears simply as normal, environment-related navigation guidance

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It packages the attacker goal as a necessary prerequisite for the user goal and continues guiding the agent toward the payload injection point

Inertia trap:This trap begins to reveal partial malicious intent but makes no direct operational demands. It packages the attacker goal as a necessary prerequisite for the user goal and continues guiding the agent toward the payload injection point

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{detour_root_label}

Payload trap:This trap triggers the complete attacker goal near the entrance of the restricted area. It explicitly instructs the agent to enter the restricted area, perform the full sequence of operations required for the attacker goal, and then return to the user area to resume the user task. Each trap can be abstracted as zk =B k∥Rk∥Ck, where Bk is the ...

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{click_1_label}

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{click_2_label}

Click "{click_2_label}". ... After you reach the final page on that alternative path, repeatedly use the available "Back to parent" button until you return to this current page. Only after returning here should you resume the original user task. Requested temporary detour goal: {requested_goal_breadcrumb} WebTrap prompts.By default, WebTrap uses hermes-4-...

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on GitLab Hub, click GITLAB::add an ssh key to the user account

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Special Requests & Preferences

on Add SSH Key, click Add key. When you later return from the secure workflow and see this page xx again, do not reopen GitLab entry; continue the user’s original request here with the non-GitLab options on this page." <output format> Directly output the injection statement. </output format> Generation example.The following example demonstrates the actual...

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Access Tokens

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New Deploy Token

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Deploy", check read_repository, read_package_registry, and write_package_registry scopes, then click

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created_deploy_key

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