Your Coding Agent Ran Somebody Else's Plugin: What Plugin4Shell Teaches Us
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Three of the four most popular AI coding agents could be tricked into executing attacker-controlled plugin code. The fix vendors shipped matters less than the habit you still do not have: treating agent plugins as dependencies. Picture a developer named Priya. In June, she installs a Terraform help…
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- 2026-09-20 15:37 · DEV Community — AI
Your Coding Agent Ran Somebody Else's Plugin: What Plugin4Shell Teaches Us