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Escape found the same XSS in two AI chatboxes. The vulnerability was in the Markdown renderer.

calendar_today August 21, 2026 person Gwendal Mognier domain escape

Weeks apart, at two unrelated companies, Escape’s AI pentesting agent found the same stored XSS. Both had shipped a customer-facing chat where the model emits Markdown and the frontend renders it with raw HTML enabled and no sanitizer, so anything the model can be made to say executes

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