xxe

xxe is a skill for Claude Code from mohdhaji87/payloadsallthethings-skills. It costs 24 tokens per session (2,062 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A security testing skill for XML External Entity (XXE) injection, an attack that abuses XML parsers to read files, make network requests, or consume excessive resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when testing applications that accept or process XML, including checks for file reading, server-side request forgery, and denial-of-service risks.
Why use it?
It helps reveal unsafe XML parsing before an attacker can use it to access local data, reach internal services, or cause denial of service.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the payloadsallthethings plugin — 61 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when testing applications that accept or process XML, including checks for file reading, server-side request forgery, and denial-of-service risks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mohdhaji87/payloadsallthethings-skills/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 mohdhaji87/payloadsallthethings-skills --skill xxe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohdhaji87/payloadsallthethings-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install payloadsallthethings, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 61 skills.

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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,062 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00024 $0.02062
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01031
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00412
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00206

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2c540c416a9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

xxe scanned grade B 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 8d 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 endpointmediumServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

<!ENTITY xxe SYSTEM "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.

payloadsallthethings/skills/xxe/SKILL.md · 305 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 8d ago First seen · 305 lines · 24 tokens per session scan B 2c540c416a9b

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xxe is a skill published in the GitHub repository mohdhaji87/payloadsallthethings-skills (21 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 2,062 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (cloud metadata endpoint). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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