Observed Signal · Jul 24, 2026 · Vulnerability Disclosure · Source: https://martechseries.com/feed/ · Impact: 4/5 · Sentiment: Negative
Zenity Labs Reveals 'AgentForger' ChatGPT Vulnerability
Zenity Labs disclosed 'AgentForger,' a critical vulnerability in OpenAI's ChatGPT Workspace Agents that let attackers inject a malicious autonomous agent via a single phishing ChatGPT link. The forged agent could be created in the name of a clicked employee, inherit that employee's enterprise connectors (email, calendar, cloud storage, Slack/Teams) and existing authorizations without showing an OAuth consent screen, and be scheduled to repeatedly exfiltrate files, harvest credentials and MFA tokens, impersonate users, and persist inside the organization. Zenity Labs reported the issue to OpenAI via Bugcrowd on 2026-06-04; OpenAI acknowledged the report within a day and removed the vulnerable URL parameter within four days, patching the flaw before public disclosure. Zenity framed AgentForger as an evolution of CSRF and a new class of attacker-created, agentic insiders; exploitation in the wild is unknown.
Vulnerability in a major AI platform (OpenAI ChatGPT Workspace Agents) enables attacker-controlled autonomous insiders with enterprise access; remediation affects enterprise agent adoption and security controls across organizations.
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Key Takeaways & Evidence Grounding
- AgentForger: Zenity Labs found a vulnerability enabling attacker-controlled autonomous agents via a single phishing ChatGPT link that inherited a clicked employee's enterprise access (email, calendar, cloud storage, Slack/Teams).
- The forged agent could be created in the victim's name, reuse existing authorizations without an OAuth consent screen, be scheduled, exfiltrate files, harvest credentials and MFA tokens, impersonate employees, and persist.
- Zenity Labs reported the issue to OpenAI via Bugcrowd on 2026-06-04; OpenAI acknowledged within one day and removed the vulnerable URL parameter within four days, patching before public disclosure.
- Zenity described AgentForger as an evolution of CSRF and said it illustrates a new AI security class of attacker-created, agentic insiders exploiting legitimate identity and access.
- It is unknown whether the vulnerability was exploited in the wild.
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