TopicAttack: An Indirect Prompt Injection Attack via Topic Transition

Yulin Chen, Haoran Li 0003, Yuexin Li, Yue Liu 0008, Yangqiu Song, Bryan Hooi. TopicAttack: An Indirect Prompt Injection Attack via Topic Transition. In Christos Christodoulopoulos 0001, Tanmoy Chakraborty 0002, Carolyn Rose, Violet Peng, editors, Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China, November 4-9, 2025. pages 7327-7345, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025. [doi]

@inproceedings{ChenLLLSH25,
  title = {TopicAttack: An Indirect Prompt Injection Attack via Topic Transition},
  author = {Yulin Chen and Haoran Li 0003 and Yuexin Li and Yue Liu 0008 and Yangqiu Song and Bryan Hooi},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.372},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.372},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/ChenLLLSH25},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  pages = {7327-7345},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China, November 4-9, 2025},
  editor = {Christos Christodoulopoulos 0001 and Tanmoy Chakraborty 0002 and Carolyn Rose and Violet Peng},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  isbn = {979-8-89176-332-6},
}