69 Vulnerabilities in 15 Apps: The Vibe Coding Security Reckoning Is Real

My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub Me: gabrielanhaia A pen testing firm audited 15 applications built primarily through vibe coding. They found 69 vulnerabilities. Six were critical. Not "theoretically possible." Not "in a lab environment." Critical as in: an attacker can read the database, hijack sessions, or escalate to root. On shipped apps. Handling real user data. That report would be bad enough on its own. But it landed alongside code quality metrics showing 41% churn rates, a 4x spike in duplication, and Apple straight-up rejecting vibe-coded apps from the App Store. The pattern here isn't subtle. What the Vulnerability Report Actually Found The 69 vulnerabilities weren't novel attack vectors. They were boring. Textbook OWASP Top 10 stuff that any mid-level developer would catch in code review: SQL injection, broken authentication, hardcoded secrets, missing input validation, insecure direct object references. That's the damning part. These aren't hard problems. They're solved prob