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Prompt Injection Isn’t "Just Like SQL Injection." Security Teams Are Warning Loudly.

Prompt injection sits at the top of OWASP’s 2025 LLM risks. You need sandboxing, allowlists, and control/data separation.

5 min read Updated 2025

LLMs blur instructions and data. The UK NCSC and OWASP put prompt injection at LLM01:2025. Designs like CaMeL separate control flow from untrusted data.

High-risk ingress: user prompts, README, issues, web content. Mitigations: sandbox tools, allowlists, label untrusted text.

Playbook: least-privilege tools, explicit approvals, and hard fail on unsanitized commands.

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