Benchmarking Web Agent Safety under E-commerce Deceptive Interfaces

In three linesWebDecept, a testing framework, evaluates the robustness of autonomous web agents against deceptive interfaces in e-commerce. Seven deception patterns (targeted ads, domain redirects, shopping manipulation) are injected into web environments. Results show current multimodal web agents are highly susceptible, and prompt-based constraints are insufficient to mitigate failures.

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