src_c25d91fa3ad9ae9ac7
- Source-provided label
- Not reported
- Evidence class
- mentioned in report
- Confidence
- Not reported
- Observed
- Aug 21, 2025 09:20 UTC
- Retrieved
- Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTC
Hijacking Windsurf: How Prompt Injection Leaks Developer Secrets
This is the first post in a series exploring security vulnerabilities in Windsurf. If you are unfamiliar with Windsurf, it is a fork of VS Code and the coding agent is called Windsurf Cascade. The attack vectors we will explore today allow an adversary during an indirect prompt injection to exfiltrate data from the developer’s machine. These vulnerabilities are a great example of Simon Willison’s
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- Source category
- Research & news
- Report title
Hijacking Windsurf: How Prompt Injection Leaks Developer Secrets- First reported
- Aug 21, 2025 09:20 UTC
- Last reported
- Aug 21, 2025 09:20 UTC
- Catalog updated
- Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTC
- Record ID
c3975c277fb23257b147388f1ec4d5d8fab1287da74f79a133d9ac7cc695f5c8
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