Last seen January 28, 2026

AI Prompt Injection Vulnerability

Personal AI agents like OpenClaw are critically vulnerable to malicious "skills" and prompt injection attacks, enabling unauthorized command execution and data exfiltration. These exploits facilitate the silent transfer of sensitive information, such as API keys and credentials, by bypassing internal safety mechanisms and traditional security controls.

Technical Severity
Low severity
Lifecycle Status

STABLE

What Happened

Personal AI agents like OpenClaw are critically vulnerable to malicious "skills" and prompt injection attacks, enabling unauthorized command execution and data exfiltration. These exploits facilitate the silent transfer of sensitive information, such as API keys and credentials, by bypassing internal safety mechanisms and traditional security controls.

Why This Matters

Current evidence identifies a security issue involving the affected technology, but does not yet support a more specific impact claim.

Recommended Action

No confirmed vendor remediation is available in the current evidence. Confirm whether the affected technology is present in your environment and review the affected configuration.

Exposure

My AI Stack Exposure

Exposure unknown

Recommended Response
Last Seen

Jan 28, 2026 05:30

Exposure reason: This incident does not currently match a technology in My AI Stack.

Exploitation status: UNKNOWN

Primary entities:

AI AgentsPrompt Injection

Timeline

  • Incident first seen
    Jan 28, 2026 05:30

    BugSkan first recorded this incident.

  • Personal AI Agents like OpenClaw Are a Security Nightmare - blogs.cisco.com
    Jan 28, 2026 05:30

    blogs.cisco.com · Research

Sources

Personal AI Agents like OpenClaw Are a Security Nightmare - blogs.cisco.com

blogs.cisco.com · Jan 28, 2026 05:30

Personal AI agents like OpenClaw are critically vulnerable to malicious "skills" and prompt injection attacks, enabling unauthorized command execution and data exfiltration. These exploits facilitate the silent transfer of sensitive information, such as API keys and credentials, by bypassing internal safety mechanisms and traditional security controls.

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