Special Token Injection (STI) Attack Guide
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Summary
A pentester's guide to Special Token Injection (STI): reserved tokens and chat templates, when poorly escaped, let attackers override system prompts, forge roles, and hijack tool calls in LLMs.
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--- id: 7445 title: "Special Token Injection (STI) Attack Guide" source_domain: blog.sentry.security source_url: "https://blog.sentry.security/special-token-injection-sti-attack-guide/" published_at: "2025-08-01T13:48:47Z" tags: ["ai-security", "pentesting", "prompt-injection", "llm", "special-token-injection", "chatml"] phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/7445" lang: en --- # Special Token Injection (STI) Attack Guide ## Summary A pentester's guide to Special Token Injection (STI): reserved tokens and chat templates, when poorly escaped, let attackers override system prompts, forge roles, and hijack tool calls in LLMs. ## Intelligence Metadata - **Sources:** blog.sentry.security - **Published:** 2025-08-01T13:48:47Z - **Original:** https://blog.sentry.security/special-token-injection-sti-attack-guide/ - **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/7445