FEAT Add PromptInjectionScorer for OWASP LLM01 prompt injection detection#1774
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Adds a local, regex-based PromptInjectionScorer to detect common prompt-injection patterns and includes unit tests to validate detection, rationale text, custom pattern overrides, and memory integration.
Changes:
- Introduces
PromptInjectionScorer(regex-based true/false scorer) with default OWASP-aligned prompt-injection pattern set. - Adds unit tests covering true positives/negatives, rationale strings, custom patterns, and memory write behavior.
- Exports
PromptInjectionScorerfrompyrit.scorefor public use.
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| File | Description |
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| tests/unit/score/test_prompt_injection_scorer.py | Adds unit tests validating detection behavior, rationales, custom patterns, and memory integration. |
| pyrit/score/true_false/prompt_injection_scorer.py | Implements a new regex-based prompt-injection scorer and default pattern set. |
| pyrit/score/init.py | Exposes PromptInjectionScorer from the pyrit.score public API. |
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| "Encoding Evasion Request": ( | ||
| r"(?i)\b(?:decode|interpret|execute|follow|run|process|translate|evaluate)" | ||
| r"\b.{0,30}\b(?:base64|rot13|hex(?:adecimal)?|url.?encod|unicode|ascii" |
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yeah that one was busted — the trailing \b after encod wouldn't match the word forms. Now url.?encod(?:e|ed|ing|er)? so encode/encoded/encoding/encoder all hit. fixed.
| r"|filters?|guardrails?|safety|censorship|moderation)\b" | ||
| ), | ||
| "Chat Template Injection": ( | ||
| r"(?:\[/?INST\]|<</?SYS>>|<\|im_start\|>|<\|im_end\|>" |
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good shout — added (?i) so lowercase tokens like [inst] / <<sys>> match too. threw in tests for those.
| Defaults to TrueFalseScoreAggregator.OR. | ||
| """ | ||
| super().__init__( | ||
| patterns=patterns if patterns is not None else self._DEFAULT_PATTERNS, |
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the RegexScorer base already does self._patterns = dict(patterns) in its init (regex_scorer.py#L50) so no shared mutation across instances — keeping it the same way CredentialLeakScorer does it.
…hat template tokens
Builds on #1704 — adds a
PromptInjectionScorerthat catches OWASP LLM01 prompt injection attempts with regex. Fast, local, no API call, no LLM in the loop.The gap I was trying to fill:
PromptShieldScoreris great but it's an Azure API call (so $$ per request), and theSelfAsk*Scorerfamily uses an LLM under the hood (slow + non-deterministic). For thousands of red-team iterations or as a cheap pre-filter in front of the heavier scorers, neither really fits.Subclassed
RegexScorerthe same wayCredentialLeakScorerdid. 8 default pattern categories:[INST],<<SYS>>,<|im_start|>etc.Pass
patterns=...to override defaults entirely if you want.Quickly checked the neighborhood for overlaps before opening this:
PromptShieldScorerandMarkdownInjectionScorerare different mechanisms / scope50 tests, all green. The tricky ones were the true negatives — there's a lot of normal technical language that looks injection-y: "how do I ignore a file in .gitignore", "decode this base64 string", the developer mode flag in debug logging. Wrote 13 of those specifically to lock down false positives. Also ran the full
tests/unit/score/locally, 1052 pass, no regressions.