Formal Operational Models for Protecting Web Interfaces of Legal LLM Systems from Prompt Injection and Insecure Output Handling
Abstract
The proliferation of large language model (LLM) systems in legal technology platforms has created a new class of web-interface security vulnerabilities that existing application security frameworks address incompletely. This paper examines prompt injection and insecure output handling as the two primary attack surfaces for legal LLM web applications, with particular attention to contract lifecycle management systems that expose natural-language interfaces to privileged document repositories. Drawing on a systematic review of current OWASP LLM Top 10 guidance, peer-reviewed security literature, and practitioner case analyses, the study proposes a structured compositional operational model in which each processing stage of an LLM web pipeline is represented as a transformation function with explicitly stated security constraints. The model introduces six operators, Sanitize, Contextualize, Policy-Check, Infer, Encode, and Validate, composed in a single end-to-end pipeline whose behavior is described through finite-state transitions and trust-level tagging. The analysis indicates that the proposed compositional model can support systematic enumeration of attack paths and can be translated into an implementation-oriented checklist for practitioners. The findings are relevant to security architects, front-end engineers, and legal technology product teams who design or audit LLM-integrated web applications.
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