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Extracting Recurring Vulnerabilities from Black-Box LLM-Generated Software

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LLMs are increasingly used for code generation, but their outputs often follow recurring templates that can induce predictable vulnerabilities. We study vulnerability persistence in LLM-generated software and introduce Feature--Security Table (FSTab) with two components. First, FSTab enables a black-box attack that predicts likely backend vulnerabilities from observable frontend features and knowledge of the source LLM, without access to the backend or source code. Second, FSTab provides a model-centric evaluation that quantifies how consistently a model reproduces the same vulnerabilities across programs, semantics-preserving rephrasings, and application domains. We evaluate FSTab on state-of-the-art code LLMs, including GPT-5.2, Claude-4.5 Opus, and Gemini-3 Pro, across diverse application domains. Our results show strong cross-domain transfer: even when the target domain is excluded from training, FSTab achieves up to 94% attack success and 93% vulnerability coverage on Internal Tools (Claude-4.5 Opus). These findings expose an underexplored attack surface in LLM-generated software and highlight the security risks of code generation. Our code is available at https://github.com/fstabicml2026/FSTab

Tomer Kordonsky, Maayan Yamin, Noam Benzimra, Amit LeVi, Avi Mendelson• 2026

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TaskDatasetResultRank
Vulnerability Attack AnalysisWebGenBench E-commerce target-domain and cross-domain 1.0--
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Vulnerability Attack AnalysisWebGenBench Internal Tools target-domain and cross-domain 1.0--
12
Vulnerability Attack AnalysisWebGenBench Social Media target-domain and cross-domain 1.0--
12
Vulnerability Attack AnalysisWebGenBench Blogging target-domain and cross-domain 1.0--
12
Vulnerability Attack AnalysisWebGenBench Dashboards target-domain and cross-domain 1.0--
12
Code-LLM Vulnerability Recurrence EvaluationFSTab LLM-generated software--
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Vulnerability Attack PerformanceE2E (dev)--
6
Vulnerability Attack PerformanceE2E Cross-domain (dev)--
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