src_c25d91fa3ad9ae9ac7
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- mentioned in report
- Confidence
- Not reported
- Observed
- Aug 25, 2025 11:00 UTC
- Retrieved
- Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTC
How Prompt Injection Exposes Manus' VS Code Server to the Internet
Today we will cover a powerful, easy to use, autonomous agent called Manus. Manus is developed by the Chinese startup Butterfly Effect, headquartered in Singapore. This post demonstrates an end-to-end indirect prompt injection attack leading to a compromise of Manus’ dev box. This is achieved by tricking Manus to expose it’s internal VS Code Server to the Internet, and then sharing the URL and pas
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- Report title
How Prompt Injection Exposes Manus' VS Code Server to the Internet- First reported
- Aug 25, 2025 11:00 UTC
- Last reported
- Aug 25, 2025 11:00 UTC
- Catalog updated
- Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTC
- Record ID
f35558c3749a7dcd0e74bb8a3444e4e3c93015fa336676cc1a733de910270953
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