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.
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