OWASP LLM Top 10 / LLM01

LLM01: Prompt Injection

Adversarial inputs that override system instructions, bypass safety guardrails, or coerce the model into unintended behaviour.

Last reviewed June 2026

Problem

The gap LLM01 closes

Prompt Injection sits in the input surface surface, and OWASP LLM Top 10 rates it critical. Adversarial inputs that override system instructions, bypass safety guardrails, or coerce the model into unintended behaviour. For teams shipping LLM and agentic features, a control like this is only as good as the evidence that it was actually tested - an unverified control is a finding waiting for an auditor.

How Penaxtra approaches it

How Penaxtra delivers LLM01

Penaxtra ships adversarial probe families that target prompt injection directly. Each probe runs against your live endpoint on a schedule, and every triggering response is scored by three independent judges plus a meta-judge before it becomes a finding - so a LLM01 result is a tested verdict, not a guess. Every relevant finding is created with the OWASP LLM Top 10 LLM01 identifier already attached, so it lands in the audit-evidence pack mapped to the control rather than as a screenshot someone has to translate later. Where the same weakness touches another framework, the cross-framework overlap means one finding satisfies several control cells at once.

Technical capabilities

LLM01 capabilities

Probe and check coverage aligned to LLM01 (Prompt Injection)

Findings tagged with the OWASP LLM Top 10 LLM01 control identifier

Severity context (OWASP LLM Top 10 rates this critical)

Cross-framework overlap so one finding maps to several control cells

PDF and JSON audit-evidence export with the control id attached

Compliance mapping

LLM01 compliance mapping

Findings for LLM01 carry the OWASP LLM Top 10 LLM01 identifier and cross-map to the related controls in the other five frameworks Penaxtra covers.

FAQ

Frequently asked

What is LLM01 (Prompt Injection)?

Adversarial inputs that override system instructions, bypass safety guardrails, or coerce the model into unintended behaviour. It is part of OWASP LLM Top 10, rated critical.

How does Penaxtra test for LLM01?

Penaxtra ships adversarial probe families that target prompt injection directly. Each probe runs against your live endpoint on a schedule, and every triggering response is scored by three independent judges plus a meta-judge before it becomes a finding - so a LLM01 result is a tested verdict, not a guess.

Does a finding for LLM01 help with an audit?

Yes. Each finding is tagged with the OWASP LLM Top 10 LLM01 control identifier and exported in the PDF and JSON evidence pack, so it maps straight onto the auditor control list instead of needing manual translation.

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