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AII-1002-20609
ReportedReported by fewer than three independent publishers, with no official finding.Supporting sources are pending verification.

OpenAI Sora guardrail bypass via hypothetical anatomy framing

A guardrail jailbreak vulnerability in OpenAI Sora allows users to generate restricted visual content by embedding inappropriate requests within an educational anatomy context and emphasizing hypothetical framing. The disclosure rates the vulnerability as posing minimal societal risk.

19 February 2026 Β· OpenAI Β· Security and cyberattacks
19 February 2026
AII-1002-20609
Quick facts
Organization
OpenAI (subject)
Category
Security and cyberattacks
Date
19 February 2026
Drafted by
Raidu Incident Detection

What happened

A guardrail jailbreak vulnerability was discovered in OpenAI Sora that allows users to bypass content restrictions on generating inappropriate visual content.

The attack embeds requests for restricted content within an educational anatomy classroom context, repeatedly emphasizing the "hypothetical" nature of the scenario to evade inference restrictions.

Reported impact

The disclosure classifies the violation as posing minimal societal risk, affecting individual users without broader implications.

Index analysis

The jailbreak relies on world-building and scenario construction techniques, combining academic framing with hypothetical scenario construction to manipulate the model's behavior.

Classification

Organization
OpenAI (subject)
Category
Security and cyberattacks
Harm status
Potential harm
Intent
Intentional
Timing
Post-deployment
Harm types
Other
Failure modes
Jailbreak, Manipulation or dark pattern, Content moderation failure
Consequences
None recorded
AI systems
Sora

Sources and evidence

Sources not yet published

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