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Hackergram — An Open-Source Platform for Classical and LLM-Driven Web Security Experimentation

Year: 2026

Type: software

Abstract: Hackergram is a deliberately vulnerable social-networking application, released fully open source so every part of it can be read and inspected. It is built for both classical web-security experiments (SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, and more) and attacks that involve LLM integration, such as prompt injection and LLM-mediated SQL injection. It can be deployed locally, packaged as Docker containers, or run inside a full GNS3 network topology for reproducible, isolated experimentation.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22966304

Authors: Valadas, Rui, João, Pimentel

Institution: Instituto Superior Técnico

Language: English

Topic: Web Application Security Vulnerabilities

Subfield: Information Systems

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7214365243

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