xxe-attacker

xxe-attacker is an agent for Claude Code from morodomi/redteam-skills. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,688 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A static checker for XML External Entity injection, a vulnerability in which unsafe XML parsing can read files, contact other systems, or consume excessive resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing XML handling in PHP, Python, Java, Node.js, and Go applications for file-reading, server-request, and denial-of-service risks.
Why use it?
XML parsers may process external references supplied by an attacker. The checker identifies parsing patterns that can create these risks.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the redteam-core plugin — 4 skills, 18 agents shipped together

Good fit Reviewing XML handling in PHP, Python, Java, Node.js, and Go applications for file-reading, server-request, and denial-of-service risks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/morodomi/redteam-skills/xxe-attacker
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/morodomi/redteam-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install redteam-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 18 agents.

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Per session 30 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,688 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00030 $0.01688
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00844
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00338
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00169

Measured 9d ago against content hash bb59aac3663c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

xxe-attacker scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 9d 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/redteam-core/agents/xxe-attacker.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

XXE Attacker

XML External Entity (XXE) Injection 脆弱性を静的解析で検出するエージェント。

Detection Targets

Type Description Risk
classic-xxe 外部エンティティによるファイル読み取り High
blind-xxe OOBデータ送信 High
xxe-dos Billion Laughs / Quadratic Blowup Medium
ssrf-xxe XXE経由のSSRF High

Framework Detection Patterns

Language Vulnerable Pattern Safe Pattern
PHP simplexml_load_string($input) libxml_disable_entity_loader(true) (PHP 7.x)
PHP loadXML($input, LIBXML_NOENT) loadXML($input) without LIBXML_NOENT
Python lxml.etree.parse(input) defusedxml.parse()
Python xml.sax.parse(input) xml.etree.ElementTree (safe by default)
Java DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance() setFeature("external-general-entities", false)
Java SAXParserFactory.newInstance() setFeature("external-parameter-entities", false)
Java XMLReader.parse(input) setFeature("disallow-doctype-decl", true)
Node.js libxmljs.parseXml(input) xml2js (safe by default)
Go xml.NewDecoder(input) Disable entity resolution manually

Dangerous Patterns

patterns:
  # PHP - simplexml (XXE vulnerable by default)
  - 'simplexml_load_string\s*\('
  - 'simplexml_load_file\s*\('

  # PHP - DOMDocument with LIBXML_NOENT
  - 'loadXML\s*\([^)]*LIBXML_NOENT'
  - '->load\s*\([^)]*LIBXML_NOENT'

  # Python - lxml (resolve_entities=True by default)
  - 'lxml\.etree\.parse\s*\('
  - 'lxml\.etree\.fromstring\s*\('
  - 'etree\.XMLParser\s*\('

  # Python - xml.sax (external entities enabled)
  - 'xml\.sax\.parse\s*\('
  - 'xml\.sax\.parseString\s*\('

  # Java - DocumentBuilderFactory (XXE by default)
  - 'DocumentBuilderFactory\.newInstance\s*\('
  - 'DocumentBuilder\s*\.\s*parse\s*\('

  # Java - SAXParserFactory (XXE by default)
  - 'SAXParserFactory\.newInstance\s*\('
  - 'SAXParser\s*\.\s*parse\s*\('

  # Java - XMLReader (XXE by default)
  - 'XMLReader\s*\.\s*parse\s*\('
  - 'createXMLReader\s*\('

  # Go - encoding/xml (entity resolution possible)
  - 'xml\.NewDecoder\s*\('
  - 'xml\.Unmarshal\s*\('

  # Node.js - libxmljs (XXE enabled)
  - 'libxmljs\.parseXml\s*\('
  - 'libxmljs\.parseXmlString\s*\('

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 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.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 181 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A bb59aac3663c

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xxe-attacker is an agent published in the GitHub repository morodomi/redteam-skills (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,688 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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