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A chat UI renders markdown from the assistant. The assistant can read a user's inbox and summarize it, and it makes no outbound tool calls. An attacker's email instructs the model to output . The user's browser loads the image and leaks the data. What is the right fix?
- A Render images and links only from allow-listed domains, enforced in the client and by a CSP img-src policy.
- B Log every outbound request the agent's tools make and alert when a tool call targets a domain the team has never seen.
- C Harden the system prompt to forbid embedding user data in URLs, then rerun the jailbreak suite to confirm resistance.
- D Redact PII from the emails before summarization so that any URL the model emits contains only non-sensitive text.
Answer: A. Render images and links only from allow-listed domains, enforced in the client and by a CSP img-src policy.
The exfiltration happens when the client automatically fetches a URL the model was tricked into emitting, so the control belongs at render time. The tradeoff is losing arbitrary external images and links. Tool-call auditing fails because the server never makes the request; the user's browser does. Redaction would help only if every sensitive item were structured PII, and business content usually is not.
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