framework-patterns

framework-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from allsmog/vuln-scout. It costs 98 tokens per session (749 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide to security weaknesses caused by the built-in behavior of web frameworks such as Next.js, Flask, Django, Rails, Spring, and GraphQL systems. It covers request handling, template rendering, redirects, deserialization, and related patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during security reviews to check routes, server actions, templates, redirects, serialized data, authentication, and framework-specific handling of user input.
Why use it?
Framework features can create security risks even when application code looks ordinary. The guide helps developers recognize these risks and understand how trust boundaries and feature interactions can lead to attacks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the vuln-scout plugin — 32 skills, 15 commands, 9 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/allsmog/vuln-scout/framework-patterns
Any agent
npx skills add allsmog/vuln-scout --skill framework-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/allsmog/vuln-scout

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install vuln-scout, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 15 commands, 9 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 749 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00098 $0.00749
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00375
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00075

Measured 4d ago against content hash 10c495f46dcf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

framework-patterns 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 4d 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.

vuln-scout/skills/framework-patterns/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Framework Security Patterns

Framework-specific vulnerability patterns that arise from how modern web frameworks handle requests, responses, and data flow. These patterns are more durable than version-specific CVEs.

Why Framework Patterns Matter

  1. Frameworks have implicit behaviors - redirect(), Server Actions, template rendering have side effects
  2. Trust assumptions differ - Internal vs external, server vs client boundaries
  3. Chains emerge - Framework A's feature enables exploitation of Framework B's weakness

Pattern Categories

1. Request Handling Patterns

  • Server Actions (Next.js) - Host header influence on internal requests
  • Route Handlers - Missing authentication on API routes
  • Middleware bypass - Path normalization differences

2. Template/Rendering Patterns

  • SSTI (Flask, Jinja2, Django, Twig) - User input in template strings
  • XSS via unsafe HTML insertion (React)
  • Prototype pollution in SSR

3. Redirect Patterns

  • Open redirect via unvalidated URLs
  • SSRF via server-side redirect (Next.js, PHP)
  • Header injection through redirect URLs

4. Deserialization Patterns

  • Pickle (Python)
  • Marshal (Ruby)
  • PHP unserialize
  • Java ObjectInputStream

Detection Workflow

  1. Identify frameworks in use (package.json, requirements.txt, Gemfile)
  2. Search for pattern signatures specific to each framework
  3. Map data flow from user input to dangerous framework APIs
  4. Check for sanitization or validation before reaching sink

Framework-Specific Skills

  • nextjs-patterns.md - Next.js Server Actions, redirect, Route Handlers
  • flask-patterns.md - Flask/Jinja2 SSTI, unsafe deserialization
  • references/django-patterns.md - Django ORM bypass, template injection, CSRF bypass, settings exposure, mass assignment, open redirect
  • references/rails-patterns.md - Rails mass assignment, SQL injection, SSTI, command injection, insecure deserialization, unscoped finds, arbitrary file render
  • references/spring-security-patterns.md - Spring SpEL injection, method security misconfiguration, CORS, CSRF, actuator exposure, mass binding, insecure JWT
  • references/graphql-patterns.md - GraphQL introspection, query depth/complexity abuse, batching attacks, authorization bypass, error disclosure

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 files 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. 4d ago First seen · 76 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 10c495f46dcf

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framework-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository allsmog/vuln-scout (24 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 749 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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