offensive-xxe

offensive-xxe is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Miosa-osa/OSA. It costs 68 tokens per session (518 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A checklist for testing web applications for XML External Entity (XXE) injection, a flaw in which an XML parser is tricked into accessing local files or remote systems. It includes common XML, file-upload, SOAP, and REST cases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test classic, blind, error-based, and file-upload XXE, including SVG and DOCX files, XInclude, and XML filter bypasses.
Why use it?
It helps security testers check the different places XML may be accepted and the ways protections can fail.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to test classic, blind, error-based, and file-upload XXE, including SVG and DOCX files, XInclude, and XML filter bypasses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/miosa-osa/osa/offensive-xxe
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 Miosa-osa/OSA --skill offensive-xxe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Miosa-osa/OSA

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 518 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00068 $0.00518
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00207
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00052

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2f00716a31e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

offensive-xxe 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 1mo 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.

priv/skills/offensive-xxe/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

SKILL: XML External Entity (XXE) Injection

Metadata

Description

XML External Entity injection testing checklist: classic XXE, blind XXE (out-of-band), XXE via file upload (SVG/docx), XXE in SOAP/REST, error-based XXE, XInclude attacks, and XXE filter bypass. Use for web app XXE testing and bug bounty.

Trigger Phrases

Use this skill when the conversation involves any of: XXE, XML external entity, blind XXE, out-of-band XXE, XXE file upload, SVG XXE, SOAP XXE, XInclude, entity bypass, XXE SSRF, XXE file read

Methodology references

Read the relevant sections below before following a technique. Read them in order for the complete original methodology. Confirm the target and testing scope with the user before performing any active checks.

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 1mo ago Changed · -977 lines scan C → A 2f00716a31e3
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 1,028 lines · 68 tokens per session scan C dc282deab561

Subscribe to this mod's changes

offensive-xxe is a skill published in the GitHub repository Miosa-osa/OSA (78 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 518 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-14.