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Cline: Vulnerable To Data Exfiltration And How To Protect Your Data

infoembracetheredPublished 2025-08-27

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<p><a href="https://github.com/cline/cline">Cline</a> is quite a popular AI coding agent, according to the product website it has 2+ million downloads and over 47k stars on GitHub.</p> <p>Unfortunately, Cline is vulnerable to data exfiltration through the rendering of markdown images from untrusted domains in the chat box.</p> <p><a href="https://embracethered.com/blog/images

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