ICLR 2027 Under Review · Agentic Search Security
Backdoor in the Loop: Compromising Agentic Search via Malicious Retrievers
This work exposes a systematic vulnerability in agentic RAG: a compromised retriever can exploit the search feedback loop to suppress useful evidence, repeatedly surface a chosen document, or prolong search, even when the corpus and agent remain unchanged. It also shows how an inject-and-remove cycle can conceal the malicious behavior from backdoor detectors.



