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Marius CiepluchandClaude Opus 5 db273dde53 docs(specs): WordPress flaw classes, the corpus insight, and an IR brief
Three directions recorded, each grounded in what this session measured.

**WordPress by flaw class, not by plugin** (tasks 5.8, 5.9). One plugin is
a checkout; a class is a claim. WordPress's recurring shapes are narrow and
each maps to a family that already exists -- unauthenticated wp_ajax_nopriv
reaching $wpdb, a missing capability check, unescaped output, arbitrary
file operations. Two of the four are blocked on gaps this session found:
access control cannot be asked at all because PHP has no obligation facts
(5.9), and unescaped output is blocked on the flat sanitizer list (5.6).
The observable is a class-by-class table across several plugins saying
found, missed, or out of scope -- a single found CVE is not the artifact
worth teaching from.

**Why a corpus of benchmarks is not enough on its own**, written into
overview.md as the finding it is rather than an opinion. Twelve engine
defects in one session against three real repositories, and the three gates
stayed byte-identical through every fix. A gate that does not move is a
corpus that could not see the bug. The reason is structural: a pair is a
labelled function with a declared family and a known answer, so it cannot
exercise which region to look at, what to spend, whether a capability is
reachable, whether two entry points share a sink, whether the question fits
in an argv slot, or whether a flow crosses a module. Three of the twelve
were quiet failures where the tool reported clean and every honesty counter
agreed -- which a benchmark score cannot express, because the score is
computed from the verdicts that exist. The corpus is the holdout that stops
per-repository tuning, and the wrong instrument for finding out whether the
tool works.

**ir-consolidation** (brief, unapproved) separates two questions the IR
suggestion contains, which have opposite answers. The SOURCE IR is already
carried rather than about to be added: semantic/ is 3218 lines, 16% of the
codebase, measured at 2.2% entailment against the CPG's 41.3% and still
running as a proposer -- and Vine and P-Code are binary IRs, so the work
there is subtraction. The MISSING abstraction is C arithmetic, and there
GhidraPAL's three-valued-logic abstract interpreter over Ghidra P-Code is
exactly the right shape: "can this index exceed this allocation" is a value
question, which is what a bit-level TVL domain answers and what every
libpng overflow needs. Vine is dormant since 2009 and is not the candidate.

The constraint is recorded as an ordering: question 1 lands before question
2 starts, or adopting an IR makes the growth problem worse. And the cost
that matters is not lines but the number of things that can silently return
nothing -- this session found three such in a single PHP scan, and a binary
pipeline adds a build, a lifter and a domain, each able to produce an empty
result that looks like a clean one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
2026-09-09 17:04:04 +02:00
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