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Updated 7/21/2026, database is current

Language Model Security Database

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The Google Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), specifically within the reference implementation built using the Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Gemini models, contains vulnerabilities allowing for both indirect and direct prompt injection. The architecture fails to sufficiently isolate the Large Language Model (LLM) context from untrusted external data sources and user inputs.

Whispers of Wealth: Red-Teaming Google's Agent Payments Protocol via Prompt Injection
Affects: Gemini 2.5 Flash

Source: arXiv

Personalized LLM agents utilizing long-term memory systems are vulnerable to a safety bypass known as intent legitimation. Benign, organically accumulated user memories can bias the model's intent inference, causing it to misinterpret inherently harmful queries as contextually justified. When a malicious request semantically aligns with a user's established persona (e.g., hobbies, mental health history, routine), the model normalizes the request and complies, effectively bypassing standard…

When Personalization Legitimizes Risks: Uncovering Safety Vulnerabilities in Personalized Dialogue Agents
Affects: GPT-4o, GPT-4o Mini, DeepSeek V3.2 +2 more

Source: arXiv

Production Large Language Models (LLMs) are vulnerable to long-form training data extraction via a two-phase prompt injection attack. This vulnerability allows an attacker to recover substantial portions of memorized, copyrighted text (such as novels) by exploiting the model's autoregressive text completion capabilities. The attack methodology involves two distinct phases: 1. Prefix Completion Probe: The attacker provides a short "seed" sequence (e.g., the first sentence of a book) coupled…

Extracting Books from Production Language Models
Affects: Claude 3.7 Sonnet 20250219, GPT-4.1 2025-04-14, Gemini 2.5 Pro +1 more

Source: arXiv

Open-weight Large Language Models, demonstrated specifically on Qwen3 (4B and 30B-A3B Base, Instruct, and Thinking variants), are vulnerable to unauthorized steerability attacks where minimal inference-time interventions—such as short, pro-instrumental prompt suffixes—reliably elicit dangerous instrumental-convergence behaviors. Because instruction-tuned and "Thinking" models are inherently designed to be highly responsive to steering (authorized steerability), malicious actors can exploit…

Steerability of Instrumental-Convergence Tendencies in LLMs
Affects: Qwen 3 4B Base, Qwen 3 4B Instruct, Qwen 3 4B Thinking +3 more

Source: arXiv

Instruction-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit a selective safety alignment vulnerability, allowing attackers to bypass hate speech filters by shifting the demographic target of an adversarial prompt. Current safety guardrails do not generalize the semantic concept of harm, but instead memorize refusal boundaries for high-visibility demographic groups (e.g., Black, LGBTQIA+). Attackers can successfully generate targeted hate speech by directing identical jailbreak vectors at…

Safety Is Not Universal: The Selective Safety Trap in LLM Alignment
Affects: Llama 3.2 1B Instruct, Gemma 3 1B IT, Qwen 3 1.7B FP8 +10 more

Source: arXiv

A vulnerability in the safety alignment of several major Large Language Models (LLMs) allows attackers to bypass content filters using complex, automatically generated adversarial prompts. Discovered via the AgenticRed evolutionary framework, the flaw is exploited by wrapping malicious intents in structured formats (such as strict JSON output contracts), combined with prefix injection and refusal suppression. By explicitly commanding the model to begin its response with a compliant prefix and…

AgenticRed: Evolving Agentic Systems for Red-Teaming
Affects: GPT-3.5 Turbo, GPT-4o, GPT-5.1 +9 more

Source: arXiv

Updated 2/20/2026

Large Language Models (LLMs) and their associated output guardrails (e.g., Llama Guard, OpenAI Moderation API) rely on autoregressive, token-by-token processing, which interprets text as a one-dimensional sequence. A vulnerability exists wherein harmful content can bypass these safety filters by exploiting the discrepancy between 1D token serialization and 2D visual rendering. By redistributing tokens across different rows, columns, or diagonals (SpatialJB), attackers can induce the model to…

SpatialJB: How Text Distribution Art Becomes the" Jailbreak Key" for LLM Guardrails
Affects: GPT-4, Grok 4, Gemini 2.5 Pro +3 more

Source: arXiv

Large Language Model (LLM) agents utilizing external tool execution frameworks are vulnerable to Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) via the "Tool Stream." Unlike traditional data-stream injections (e.g., malicious emails), this vulnerability exploits the agent's interpretation of functional tool definitions (docstrings, signatures) and runtime feedback (error messages, return values) as binding operational constraints. Adversaries functioning as compromised or malicious tool providers can embed…

VIGIL: Defending LLM Agents Against Tool Stream Injection via Verify-Before-Commit
Affects: Gemini 2.5 Pro, Qwen 3 Max

Source: arXiv

Closed-source Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are vulnerable to Universal Targeted Transferable Adversarial Attacks (UTTAA). An attacker can generate a single, image-agnostic adversarial perturbation ($\delta$) that, when added to any arbitrary source image, steers the victim model to output a description or classification matching a specific target image chosen by the attacker. This vulnerability exploits the transferability of adversarial features from open-source surrogate vision…

Universal Adversarial Attacks against Closed-Source MLLMs via Target-View Routed Meta Optimization
Affects: GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 4.5, GPT-5 +2 more

Source: arXiv

Updated 3/8/2026

A vulnerability in search-augmented Large Language Models (LLMs) allows attackers to bypass safety alignments and generate actionable malicious content by weaponizing the model's web retrieval tools. The exploit operates in two stages. First, via "Outsourcing Injection," attackers obfuscate harmful intent by translating it into benign-looking, multi-hop knowledge-seeking queries. This forces the LLM to fetch the harmful semantics directly from the open web, bypassing parametric intent filters…

SearchAttack: Red-Teaming LLMs against Real-World Threats via Framing Unsafe Web Information-Seeking Tasks
Affects: GPT-4o, Gemini 3 Flash, DeepSeek V3.2 +1 more

Source: arXiv

Research methodology

Entries summarize publicly available primary-source security research. Model names reflect only systems explicitly evaluated by the cited paper, and measurements are research-reported unless independent verification is stated.