exploiting-mass-assignment-in-rest-apis

exploiting-mass-assignment-in-rest-apis is a skill for Claude Code from balsm-health/Balsm-AI. It costs 41 tokens per session (2,206 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A security-testing skill for finding mass assignment vulnerabilities in REST APIs. REST APIs are web interfaces that exchange data with applications, while mass assignment is the unsafe acceptance of fields users should not control.

In plain words
What is it for?
Testing REST API requests for unauthorized field changes, privilege escalation, and authorization bypasses.
Why use it?
It helps identify cases where unexpected request fields could change protected data or grant higher privileges.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the balsm-ai plugin — 66 skills, 1 command, 1 agent, 2 hooks, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Testing REST API requests for unauthorized field changes, privilege escalation, and authorization bypasses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/balsm-health/balsm-ai/exploiting-mass-assignment-in-rest-apis
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add balsm-health/Balsm-AI --skill exploiting-mass-assignment-in-rest-apis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/balsm-health/Balsm-AI

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install balsm-ai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 66 skills, 1 command, 1 agent, 2 hooks, 3 MCP servers.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,206 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 unknown 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 $0.00041 $0.02206
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01103
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00441
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00221

Measured 12d ago against content hash 23393f7b1470, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

exploiting-mass-assignment-in-rest-apis 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/agent.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.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer USER_TOKEN" http://target.com/api/users/me | jq .
plugin/skills/exploiting-mass-assignment-in-rest-apis/SKILL.md · 239 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 12d ago First seen · 239 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 23393f7b1470

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exploiting-mass-assignment-in-rest-apis is a skill published in the GitHub repository balsm-health/Balsm-AI (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 2,206 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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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