ctf-web

ctf-web is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dailyyarn/CTF-agent. It costs 100 tokens per session (7,399 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide for solving web security challenges in capture-the-flag (CTF) competitions. It covers ways websites can be attacked, including cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and request forgery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when testing CTF websites for injection flaws, authentication weaknesses, unsafe file handling, request-routing bugs, and related web vulnerabilities.
Why use it?
It gives you relevant attack patterns and example techniques in one place instead of requiring separate research for each challenge.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/dailyyarn/ctf-agent/ctf-web
Any agent
npx skills add dailyyarn/CTF-agent --skill ctf-web
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dailyyarn/CTF-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ctf-web

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dailyyarn/ctf-agent/ctf-web.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dailyyarn/ctf-agent/ctf-web)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dailyyarn/ctf-agent/ctf-web"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dailyyarn/ctf-agent/ctf-web.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,399 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 2 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 5.1 $0.00100 $0.07399
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.03700
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.01480
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00740

Measured 5d ago against content hash 5f0432c32ff8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ctf-web scanned grade A 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 5d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

- [server-side.md](server-side.md) - Core server-side injection attacks: SQLi (EXIF metadata injection, MySQL column truncation, backslash/hex bypass, second-order, LIKE brute-force, processList trick, XML entity WAF byp

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

<%- global.process.mainModule.require('child_process').execSync('id') %>
ctf_agent/knowledge/embedded_ctf_skills/ctf-web/SKILL.md · 403 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 403 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CTF Web Exploitation

Quick reference for web CTF challenges. Each technique has a one-liner here; see supporting files for full details with payloads and code.

Additional Resources

  • server-side.md - Core server-side injection attacks: SQLi (EXIF metadata injection, MySQL column truncation, backslash/hex bypass, second-order, LIKE brute-force, processList trick, XML entity WAF bypass), SSTI (Jinja2, Go, EJS, ERB Sequel bypass, Mako, Twig, __dict__.update() quote bypass), SSRF (Host header, DNS rebinding, curl redirect), XXE, command injection (newline, blocklist bypass, sendmail, multi-barcode), PHP type juggling, PHP file inclusion / php://filter
  • server-side-exec.md - Code execution and server-side access attacks: Ruby/Perl/JS code injection, LaTeX injection RCE, PHP preg_replace /e RCE, Prolog injection, ReDoS timing oracle, file upload→RCE (.htaccess, log poisoning, Python .so hijack, Gogs symlink, ZipSlip), PHP deserialization from cookies, PHP extract() variable overwrite, XPath blind injection, Thymeleaf SpEL SSTI + Spring FileCopyUtils WAF bypass, SQLi keyword fragmentation bypass, SQL WHERE ORDER BY bypass, SQL injection via DNS records, API filter injection, WebSocket mass assignment
  • server-side-deser.md - Deserialization and execution attacks: Java deserialization (ysoserial gadget chains, JNDI injection, blind detection), Python pickle RCE (__reduce__, restricted unpickler bypass, STOP opcode chaining), race conditions (TOCTOU async exploits, double-spend, coupon reuse)
  • server-side-advanced.md - Advanced server-side techniques: ExifTool CVE-2021-22204, Go rune/byte mismatch, zip symlink traversal, path traversal bypasses (brace stripping, double URL encoding, os.path.join, %2f), Flask/Werkzeug debug mode, XXE external DTD filter bypass, WeasyPrint SSRF, MongoDB regex injection, Pongo2 Go template injection, ZIP PHP webshell, basename() bypass, React Server Components Flight RCE (CVE-2025-55182), SSRF→Docker API RCE chain, Castor XML xsi:type deserialization (Atlas HTB), Apache ErrorDocument expression file read (Zero HTB), SQLite file path traversal to bypass string equality
  • client-side.md - Client-side attacks: XSS, CSRF, CSPT, cache poisoning, DOM tricks, React input filling, hidden elements, XS-Leak timing oracle, GraphQL CSRF, Unicode case folding XSS bypass (long-s U+017F), CSS font glyph container query exfiltration, Hyperscript CDN CSP bypass, PBKDF2 prefix timing oracle, client-side HMAC bypass via leaked JS secret
  • auth-and-access.md - Auth/authz attacks: password inference, weak validation, client-side gates, NoSQL auth bypass, HAProxy/Express.js bypass, IDOR on WIP endpoints, HTTP TRACE method bypass, LLM/AI chatbot jailbreak, open redirect chains (OAuth token theft), subdomain takeover, Apache mod_status info disclosure + session forging
  • auth-jwt.md - JWT/JWE token attacks: algorithm none, RS256→HS256 confusion, weak secret, unverified signature, JWK/JKU header injection, KID path traversal, balance replay, JWE forgery with exposed public key
  • auth-infra.md - Infrastructure auth: OAuth/OIDC exploitation (redirect_uri bypass, token manipulation, state CSRF), CORS misconfiguration, git history credential leakage, CI/CD variable theft, identity provider API takeover (authentik/Keycloak), SAML SSO flow automation, Guacamole parameter extraction, login page poisoning, TeamCity REST API RCE
  • node-and-prototype.md - Node.js: prototype pollution, VM sandbox escape, Happy-DOM chain, flatnest CVE, Lodash+Pug AST injection
  • web3.md - Blockchain/Web3: Solidity exploits, proxy patterns, ABI encoding tricks, transient storage clearing collision (0.8.28-0.8.33), Foundry tooling
  • cves.md - CVE-specific exploits: Next.js middleware bypass, curl credential leak, Uvicorn CRLF, urllib scheme bypass, ExifTool DjVu, broken auth, AAEncode/JJEncode, protocol multiplexing, React Server Components Flight RCE (CVE-2025-55182), Ruby-SAML XPath digest smuggling (CVE-2024-45409, Barrier HTB), PaperCut NG auth bypass + RCE (CVE-2023-27350, Bamboo HTB), Zabbix blind SQLi (CVE-2024-22120, Watcher HTB)

Read the full file on GitHub · 403 lines

Files

What ships with it

11 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. 5d ago First seen · 403 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 5f0432c32ff8

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ctf-web is a skill published in the GitHub repository dailyyarn/CTF-agent (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 7,399 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (makes network calls, runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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