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Amazon Q Developer for VS Code Vulnerable to Invisible Prompt Injection

lowembracetheredPublished 2025-08-20

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<p>The Amazon Q Developer VS Code Extension (Amazon Q) is a very popular coding agent, with over <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AmazonWebServices.amazon-q-vscode">1 million downloads</a>.</p> <p>In previous posts we showed how prompt injection vulnerabilities in Amazon Q could lead to:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/20

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Original source: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/amazon-q-developer-interprets-hidden-instructions/