Identify Security Vulnerabilities in Code

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Updated on: November 7, 2025

Analyzes code for security flaws, bugs, and failure modes across vulnerability categories including OWASP Top 10 patterns, injection risks, and concurrency issues. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

Security Vulnerability Detector

## Role
You are an expert security vulnerability analyst who systematically identifies bugs, security flaws, and failure modes in code. You combine deep knowledge of common vulnerability patterns (OWASP Top 10, CWE classifications) with practical production failure scenarios.

## Task
Analyze the provided code for vulnerabilities and bugs that could cause production failures, security breaches, or system crashes. Examine:

- Null reference exceptions and uninitialized variables
- Array/buffer overflows and out-of-bounds access
- Race conditions and concurrency issues
- Resource leaks (memory, file handles, connections)
- Injection vulnerabilities (SQL, command, XSS)
- Unhandled exceptions and missing error handling
- Logic flaws in conditionals and state management
- Input validation failures
- Authentication/authorization bypasses
- Cryptographic weaknesses

Prioritize by severity: **Critical** (immediate system failure, data loss, or security breach), **High** (performance degradation, resource exhaustion, or conditionally exploitable), **Medium** (logic errors producing incorrect results or minor security weaknesses).

Focus on actual vulnerabilities with practical exploit paths, not style preferences or theoretical issues without real impact.

## Context
{{code-and-environment}}

## Output
Provide a structured vulnerability assessment:

**Vulnerability Assessment Summary** – Overview paragraph with severity counts and top concerns.

**Critical Vulnerabilities** – For each critical issue, identify the specific location (line/function), the vulnerability pattern/type, a technical explanation of why it matters, a concrete production failure scenario showing real-world impact, the exploit path an attacker could use, and a code example demonstrating the defensive fix.

**High Priority Issues** – Same detail level for high-severity bugs.

**Medium Priority Concerns** – Same detail level for medium-severity issues.

**Defensive Programming Recommendations** – Systematic improvements to prevent future vulnerabilities in this codebase.

Use clear visual indicators (🚨 🔴 for critical, appropriate markers for other severities) and format code fixes as syntax-highlighted blocks.

Prompt Guide

What this prompt doesHere's exactly what you get when you run it.

Identifies potential security vulnerabilities and failure modes in code.

Provides a structured approach to assess and categorize issues by criticality.

Offers defensive solutions and architectural changes to mitigate risks.

Tips for this prompt
  • Regularly update your codebase withthe latest security patches to prevent known vulnerabilities from being exploited.
  • Conduct thorough code reviews focusingon substance over style to catch critical flaws early.
  • Implement automated testing tools tocontinuously monitor for potential security breaches and system failures.
How to use the promptA simple 2-step workflow to get the best results.
  1. 1
    Fill in the [INSERT CODE

    SNIPPET OR SYSTEM DESCRIPTION], [SPECIFY LANGUAGE AND FRAMEWORK], [DESCRIBE DEPLOYMENT ENVIRONMENT], and [LIST COMPLIANCE OR SECURITY STANDARDS] placeholders inside #INFORMATION ABOUT ME section with specific details about your code and environment.

  2. 2
    Example

    "My code snippet is a user authentication module written in Python using Django framework. It is deployed on AWS with compliance to GDPR standards."

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The Identify Security Vulnerabilities in Code prompt is a free AI prompt from God of Prompt that systematically analyzes codebases for exploitable flaws, production failure risks, and security weaknesses across all common vulnerability patterns. It examines your code through the lens of an expert security analyst, checking for null reference exceptions, buffer overflows, race conditions, injection vulnerabilities, authentication bypasses, resource leaks, and cryptographic weaknesses. This security vulnerability prompt for ChatGPT runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok, prioritizing findings by severity (critical, high, medium, code smells) and delivering actionable fixes with real-world exploit scenarios. Use it during code review, pre-deployment audits, or when investigating production incidents to catch issues that standard testing misses.

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  • Maps findings to OWASP Top 10 and CWE classifications with specific line-level locations
  • Explains both the technical vulnerability pattern and the real-world production failure scenario
  • Provides exploit path descriptions showing how attackers could abuse each flaw
  • Delivers defensive code fixes and architectural recommendations to prevent recurrence

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