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Plugin4Shell: When Your AI Coding Agent Auto-Updates Straight Into RCE
Zero-click RCE. Four major AI coding agents. No user interaction required. Let's talk about Plugin4Shell.
The Incident
In September 2026, researchers disclosed a vulnerability class dubbed "Plugin4Shell" affecting Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Copilot. The flaw lives in how these agents verify SHA-pinned plugin commits pulled from marketplaces.
Here's the setup: you install a plugin, the agent pins it to a specific commit SHA, and in theory that SHA is your guarantee tha...
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