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arxiv: 2606.14027 · v3 · pith:27GUGGBUnew · submitted 2026-06-12 · 💻 cs.CR · cs.AI· cs.CL· cs.SY· eess.SY

Same-Origin Policy for Agentic Browsers

Xilong Wang , Xiaoxing Chen , Patrick Li , Dawn Song , Neil Gong This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.CR cs.AIcs.CLcs.SYeess.SY
keywords same-origin policyagentic browsersweb securityAI agentsSOPBenchSOPGuardBrowserOS
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The pith

Agentic browsers violate the same-origin policy because their AI agents act as automated channels for cross-origin data flows.

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

The paper asks whether the same-origin policy still prevents unauthorized cross-origin data access when a browser is controlled by an autonomous AI agent rather than by user-driven scripts. It shows that the agent itself can read, combine, and transmit data across origins, creating violations even in normal operation and under attack. The authors built SOPBench to measure these violations across existing agentic browsers and then designed SOPGuard, an enforcement layer that blocks the unauthorized flows while keeping task completion rates nearly unchanged. The mechanism was implemented inside the open-source BrowserOS and measured to add only small runtime cost.

Core claim

An agentic browser can itself serve as an automated channel for cross-origin data flows, potentially leading to SOP violations. Existing agentic browsers frequently violate SOP, both in benign settings and under attacks. SOPGuard effectively enforces SOP while preserving utility and incurring only a small runtime overhead.

What carries the argument

The agentic browser serving as an automated channel for cross-origin data flows, countered by the SOPGuard enforcement mechanism that intercepts and checks agent-initiated actions against origin boundaries.

If this is right

  • SOP violations arise from the agent's autonomous data movement even without explicit malicious prompts.
  • Traditional script-based SOP checks are insufficient once an agent can chain actions across pages.
  • Enforcement can be added without destroying the agent's ability to complete most web tasks.
  • Low-overhead policy layers become necessary components of any agentic browser architecture.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • Similar policy gaps may exist for content-security policy or cookie isolation in agentic settings.
  • Browser vendors could adopt SOPBench-style tests as part of their agentic feature release process.
  • Agent designs that log every cross-origin read and write would make enforcement easier to audit.

Load-bearing premise

That the SOPBench test cases and the BrowserOS implementation are representative of production agentic browsers and that observed violations stem specifically from the agentic architecture rather than from particular model behaviors or unmodeled implementation details.

What would settle it

Running the full SOPBench suite on multiple production agentic browsers and finding zero SOP violations in both benign and attack scenarios would falsify the claim that such browsers frequently violate the policy.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.14027 by Dawn Song, Neil Gong, Patrick Li, Xiaoxing Chen, Xilong Wang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of SOPGuard. focused on prompt injection attacks [11] within a webpage that induce the agentic browser to perform attacker-chosen actions on that webpage or on webpages from the same origin, leaving cross-origin data flows largely unexplored. More recent work, including a workshop paper [12] and a blog post [13], has suggested that agentic browsers may bypass the SOP. However, these works do not p… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Accuracy of label propagation of BrowserOS-SOPGuard using differ￾ent backbone LLMs. the union of origins of all webpages in the interaction his￾tory [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Adaptive attacks against BrowserOS-SOPGuard. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Screenshot of agentic browser, using BrowserOS as an example. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: System prompt used to construct the e-commerce webpage. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: System prompt used to construct the banking webpage. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: System prompt used to construct the airline webpage. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: System prompt used to construct the email webpage. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: System prompt used to construct the calendar webpage. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: System prompt used to construct the message webpage. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: System prompt used to construct the HR portal webpage. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: System prompt used to construct the document workspace webpage. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: System prompt used to construct the insurance webpage. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: System prompt used to construct the pharmacy webpage. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p034_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: System prompt used to construct the X webpage. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: System prompt used to construct the Discord webpage. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p036_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: System prompt used to construct the GitHub webpage. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p037_17.png] view at source ↗
Figure 18
Figure 18. Figure 18: System prompt used to construct the Reddit webpage. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p038_18.png] view at source ↗
Figure 19
Figure 19. Figure 19: System prompt used to construct the Google Forms webpage. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p039_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Screenshot of e-commerce webpage [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p040_20.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Screenshot of banking webpage. 40 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p040_21.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Screenshot of airlines webpage [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p041_22.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Screenshot of email webpage. 41 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p041_23.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 24. Figure 24: Screenshot of calendar webpage [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p042_24.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 25. Figure 25: Screenshot of message webpage. 42 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p042_25.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 26. Figure 26: Screenshot of HR webpage [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p043_26.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 27. Figure 27: Screenshot of document workspace webpage. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p043_27.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 28. Figure 28: Screenshot of insurance webpage [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p044_28.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 29. Figure 29: Screenshot of pharmacy webpage. 44 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p044_29.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 30. Figure 30: Screenshot of X webpage [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p045_30.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 31. Figure 31: Screenshot of Discord webpage. 45 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p045_31.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 32. Figure 32: Screenshot of GitHub webpage [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p046_32.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 33. Figure 33: Screenshot of Reddit webpage. 46 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p046_33.png] view at source ↗
Figure 34
Figure 34. Figure 34: Screenshot of Google Forms webpage. 47 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p047_34.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 35. Figure 35: System prompt used to generate Ts and Ps. 48 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p048_35.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 36. Figure 36: System prompt used to generate Tk and Pk. 49 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p049_36.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 37. Figure 37: System prompt used to generate injected tasks [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p050_37.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 38. Figure 38: System prompt for the attacker LLM used in our optimization-based prompt-injection [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p051_38.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 39. Figure 39: System prompt for the evaluator LLM used in our optimization-based prompt-injection [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p052_39.png] view at source ↗
Figure 40
Figure 40. Figure 40: System prompt for label propagation in BrowserOS-SOPGuard. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p053_40.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Agentic browsers integrate autonomous AI agents into web browsers, enabling users to accomplish web tasks through natural-language instructions. The same-origin policy (SOP) is a fundamental browser security mechanism that prevents unauthorized automated cross-origin data flows induced by scripts. However, whether SOP remains effective in agentic browsers is an open question that has not been systematically studied. In this work, we bridge this gap. We first observe that an agentic browser can itself serve as an automated channel for cross-origin data flows, potentially leading to SOP violations. To investigate this phenomenon, we construct SOPBench, a benchmark for evaluating SOP violations in agentic browsers. Our evaluation shows that existing agentic browsers frequently violate SOP, both in benign settings and under attacks. To address this problem, we propose SOPGuard, an SOP enforcement mechanism tailored to agentic browsers. We implement SOPGuard in BrowserOS, an open-source agentic browser. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that SOPGuard effectively enforces SOP while preserving utility and incurring only a small runtime overhead. Our code and data are available at https://github.com/wxl-lxw/BrowserOS-SOPGuard.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper claims that agentic browsers, which integrate autonomous AI agents into web browsers, can serve as channels for unauthorized cross-origin data flows that violate the same-origin policy (SOP). It introduces SOPBench, a benchmark to evaluate such violations, reports that existing agentic browsers frequently violate SOP in both benign and attack settings, and proposes SOPGuard, an enforcement mechanism implemented in the open-source BrowserOS that effectively enforces SOP while preserving utility and adding only small runtime overhead.

Significance. If the empirical results hold under broader conditions, this work would identify a previously unexamined security gap in LLM-driven agentic browsers and supply a concrete enforcement primitive. The release of SOPBench, BrowserOS, and associated code/data enables reproducibility and follow-on research in browser security for autonomous agents.

major comments (3)
  1. [Evaluation] Evaluation section: the central claim that observed SOP violations are caused by the agentic architecture (rather than model-specific prompting or BrowserOS implementation details) is load-bearing, yet the manuscript provides no explicit controls such as cross-LLM comparisons, non-agentic baselines, or blinded task construction to support this attribution.
  2. [SOPBench] SOPBench description: without details on how test cases were authored (e.g., independence from the evaluated agents or BrowserOS) and how violations/utility are quantitatively measured (including error bars or detection methodology), the reported frequency of violations and SOPGuard effectiveness cannot be verified or generalized.
  3. [BrowserOS and SOPGuard] § on BrowserOS implementation: the claim that SOPGuard incurs only small overhead while preserving utility requires explicit comparison against production agentic browsers; the current single-implementation evaluation leaves open whether results transfer beyond the authors' artifact.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract asserts quantitative outcomes ('frequently violate', 'effectively enforces', 'small runtime overhead') without previewing any numbers, tables, or metrics; adding a brief results summary would improve readability.
  2. [Introduction] Notation for 'agentic browser' and 'SOP violation' should be defined once at first use with a short formal characterization to avoid ambiguity in later sections.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript to strengthen the evaluation, add missing methodological details, and clarify limitations.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [Evaluation] Evaluation section: the central claim that observed SOP violations are caused by the agentic architecture (rather than model-specific prompting or BrowserOS implementation details) is load-bearing, yet the manuscript provides no explicit controls such as cross-LLM comparisons, non-agentic baselines, or blinded task construction to support this attribution.

    Authors: We agree that explicit controls would strengthen attribution to the agentic architecture. In the revision we will add (i) cross-LLM experiments using GPT-4, Claude-3, and Llama-3 on identical SOPBench tasks, (ii) a non-agentic scripted baseline (e.g., Selenium automation) for direct comparison, and (iii) a description of task-construction procedures that were designed independently of any specific model or BrowserOS implementation. These additions will be placed in a new subsection of the evaluation. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [SOPBench] SOPBench description: without details on how test cases were authored (e.g., independence from the evaluated agents or BrowserOS) and how violations/utility are quantitatively measured (including error bars or detection methodology), the reported frequency of violations and SOPGuard effectiveness cannot be verified or generalized.

    Authors: We will expand the SOPBench section with: (a) the process used to author test cases, including explicit steps taken to ensure independence from the evaluated agents and BrowserOS; (b) the precise detection methodology for SOP violations (e.g., origin checks on data flows and logging); (c) utility metrics and their computation; and (d) all results reported with standard error bars computed over five independent runs per task. The revised text will also include the full benchmark release details already present in the artifact. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [BrowserOS and SOPGuard] § on BrowserOS implementation: the claim that SOPGuard incurs only small overhead while preserving utility requires explicit comparison against production agentic browsers; the current single-implementation evaluation leaves open whether results transfer beyond the authors' artifact.

    Authors: We acknowledge the limitation of evaluating only our open-source artifact. In the revision we will (i) add a dedicated limitations paragraph discussing the difficulty of direct comparison with closed-source commercial agentic browsers and (ii) provide additional architectural details and micro-benchmark numbers that facilitate future replication on other platforms. Because production systems are not publicly available for instrumentation, we cannot perform the requested side-by-side runtime comparison; we therefore treat this as a partial revision. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical construction of new benchmark and enforcement mechanism

full rationale

The paper performs an empirical security evaluation by constructing SOPBench, observing violations in existing agentic browsers, and implementing SOPGuard in BrowserOS. No equations, fitted parameters, predictions derived from inputs, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the provided text. The central claims rest on new artifacts and direct measurements rather than any derivation that reduces to prior self-referential inputs by construction. This is a standard non-circular empirical security paper.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on the standard definition of the same-origin policy and the assumption that agent actions can be observed and controlled at the browser level; no free parameters or new invented entities are introduced.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption The same-origin policy prevents unauthorized cross-origin data flows induced by scripts.
    Invoked in the opening paragraph as the baseline security mechanism whose effectiveness is being questioned for agentic browsers.

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