Prompt injection ranks No. 1 with OWASP and No. 12 in the incident record. The attack itself is invisible to a scan.

A CISO who sees a low CVE count and deprioritizes prompt injection is reading the scoreboard wrong. Prompt injection has held the No. 1 spot on the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications for three consecutive years. When two leaders of that list checked it against 6,639 labeled real-world incidents, it came back at No. 12. The drop measures visibility rather than danger, because the attack operates where a vulnerability scanner cannot see it.That finding belongs to Kyriakos “Rock” Lambros and Steve Wilson, two leaders of the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications project, who published it on arXiv on August 18 with the disclaimer attached. The analysis is exploratory, not peer reviewed, and not the official OWASP release, and the authors state it does not supersede the official list or its process.T