exploiting-server-side-request-forgery

exploiting-server-side-request-forgery is a skill for Claude Code from balsm-health/Balsm-AI. It costs 34 tokens per session (3,578 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A guide to server-side request forgery (SSRF), a security flaw that tricks a server into making network requests on someone else’s behalf.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for identifying and testing SSRF vulnerabilities during authorised penetration tests.
Why use it?
It helps authorised security testers check whether a server can reach private services, cloud metadata, or other restricted network locations.

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 It is for identifying and testing SSRF vulnerabilities during authorised penetration tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/balsm-health/balsm-ai/exploiting-server-side-request-forgery
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.

Any agent
npx skills add balsm-health/Balsm-AI --skill exploiting-server-side-request-forgery
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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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,578 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. 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 $0.00034 $0.03578
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01789
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00716
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00358

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1121a34f7daf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

exploiting-server-side-request-forgery scanned grade B with 2 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 11d 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.

Cloud metadata endpointmediumServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

-d '{"url":"http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/"}' \

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

- **curl**: For manual SSRF payload testing
plugin/skills/exploiting-server-side-request-forgery/SKILL.md · 355 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. 11d ago First seen · 355 lines · 34 tokens per session scan B 1121a34f7daf

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exploiting-server-side-request-forgery is a skill published in the GitHub repository balsm-health/Balsm-AI (2 stars, last pushed 29d ago), with no licence file. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 3,578 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (cloud metadata endpoint, 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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