Peiran Wang et al.
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The Landscape of Prompt Injection Threats in LLM Agents: From Taxonomy to Analysis

Peiran Wang et al.

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Wang et al. survey proposing a taxonomy of prompt injection threats specific to LLM agents, distinguishing direct, indirect, and tool-mediated vectors. Analyses defences (sandboxing, detection, constrained decoding) against reported attack success rates.

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2026

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International

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Risks and challenges

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