upload-insecure-files

upload-insecure-files is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JustineDevs/premortem. It costs 37 tokens per session (4,565 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of upload-insecure-files, Apache-2.0.

A guide to testing file-upload security, including validation, storage, previews, processing, overwriting, and possible attack chains. It applies to uploads such as avatars, documents, media, and archives.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess upload forms, import tools, media pipelines, archive handling, and upload-related paths to code execution or other vulnerabilities.
Why use it?
It helps uncover cases where an application accepts unsafe files, stores them in the wrong place, processes them insecurely, or lets one user overwrite another’s data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to assess upload forms, import tools, media pipelines, archive handling, and upload-related paths to code execution or other vulnerabilities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/justinedevs/premortem/upload-insecure-files
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 JustineDevs/premortem --skill upload-insecure-files
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JustineDevs/premortem

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,565 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00037 $0.04565
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.02282
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00913
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00456

Measured 6d ago against content hash 543343d08d49, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

upload-insecure-files scanned grade C 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 6d 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.

Cloud metadata endpointhighServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to upload-insecure-files — 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.

.agents/skills/upload-insecure-files/SKILL.md · 543 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 543 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Upload Insecure Files — Validation Bypass, Storage Abuse, and Processing Chains

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert file upload attack playbook. Use when the target accepts files, imports, avatars, media, documents, or archives and you need the full workflow: validation bypass, storage path abuse, post-upload access, parser exploitation, multi-tenant overwrite, and chaining into XSS, XXE, CMDi, traversal, or business logic impact. For web server parsing vulnerabilities, PUT method exploitation, and specific CVEs (WebLogic, Flink, Tomcat), load the companion SCENARIOS.md.

Extended Scenarios

Also load SCENARIOS.md when you need:

  • IIS parsing vulnerabilities — x.asp/ directory parsing, ; semicolon truncation (shell.asp;.jpg)
  • Nginx parsing misconfiguration — avatar.jpg/.php with cgi.fix_pathinfo=1
  • Apache parsing — multiple extensions, AddHandler, CVE-2017-15715 \n (0x0A) bypass
  • PUT method exploitation — IIS WebDAV PUT+COPY, Tomcat CVE-2017-12615 readonly + .jsp/ bypass
  • WebLogic CVE-2018-2894 arbitrary file upload via Web Service Test Page
  • Apache Flink CVE-2020-17518 file upload with path traversal
  • Upload + parsing vulnerability chain — EXIF PHP code + Nginx /.php path info
  • Full extension bypass reference table (PHP/ASP/JSP alternatives, case variations, null bytes)

Use this file as the deep upload workflow reference. Also load:

Read the full file on GitHub · 543 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 6d ago First seen · 543 lines · 37 tokens per session scan C 543343d08d49

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upload-insecure-files is a skill published in the GitHub repository JustineDevs/premortem (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 4,565 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (cloud metadata endpoint). It is 100% identical to upload-insecure-files, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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