OWASP LLM Top 10: the 10 critical vulnerabilities in AI applications
In one sentence OWASP publishes the first official list of the 10 most critical vulnerabilities in LLM applications, from prompt injection to insecure output handling, now the industry reference standard.
OWASP is the organization that has published lists of the most dangerous software vulnerabilities for twenty years. In 2023 they did the same for AI-based applications, cataloguing the 10 most relevant risk categories for anyone building products with LLMs.
The list starts with prompt injection at the top, runs through training data poisoning and insecure plugin design, and ends with excessive dependence on AI output without human verification. These are not theoretical vulnerabilities: each entry comes with real attack scenarios.
For development teams it quickly became a mandatory checklist: before shipping an app with ChatGPT or Claude, you run through this list the same way you use the classic OWASP Top 10 for web.
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