You don’t always need a vulnerable app to pull off a successful exploit. Sometimes all it takes is a well-crafted email, an LLM agent, and a few “innocent” plugins. This is the story of how I used a Gmail message to trigger code execution through Claude Desktop, and how Claude itself (!) helped me plan..
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