Notion 3.0's AI Agents: Powerful Capabilities and Potential Security Risks

2025-09-20
Notion 3.0's AI Agents: Powerful Capabilities and Potential Security Risks

Notion 3.0 integrates powerful AI agents capable of creating docs, updating databases, cross-tool searching, and executing multi-step workflows. However, researchers have discovered that this power introduces significant security risks. Attackers can leverage a cleverly crafted malicious prompt injection attack to exploit the AI agent's web search tool, exfiltrating sensitive data from a user's Notion instance. The attack involves embedding a malicious prompt within an innocuous-looking document, tricking the AI agent into sending sensitive information to an attacker-controlled server. Even advanced AI models are susceptible, highlighting the critical need for robust security measures when integrating AI agents into SaaS platforms.

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