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SAFE-M-8: Visual Validation

Overview

Mitigation ID: SAFE-M-8
Category: UI Security
Effectiveness: Medium
Implementation Complexity: Medium
First Published: 2025-01-03

Description

Visual Validation compares the visual rendering of descriptions with actual content to detect invisible characters, using techniques like screenshot comparison or rendering analysis to identify discrepancies.

Mitigates

• SAFE-T1001: Tool Poisoning Attack (TPA)
• SAFE-T1402: Instruction Steganography

Technical Implementation

[TO BE COMPLETED]

References

• Promptfoo Research on Invisible Characters
• OWASP Web Security Testing Guide v4.2 - Testing for Clickjacking
• GUI Testing Using Computer Vision - CHI 2010
• Percy Visual Testing Documentation
• Applitools Visual AI Documentation

Related Mitigations

• SAFE-M-7: Description Rendering Parity
• SAFE-M-4: Unicode Sanitization and Filtering

Version History

Version	Date	Changes	Author
0.1	2025-01-03	Initial stub	Frederick Kautz