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Claude Code Gets Plugin-Pwned: Malicious Marketplace Tricks Claude Into Mailing Your Codebase to a Stranger

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Installing a plugin from a stranger's marketplace is now a trust fall, and the agent is the one who catches you.

What happened

PromptArmor researchers demonstrated that a malicious Claude Code plugin marketplace could use hooks to bypass Claude's human-in-the-loop permission prompts. Prompt injection then led Claude to run curl and send the user's codebase data to an attacker-controlled server. The attack was shown in testing.

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