testing-for-xxe-injection-vulnerabilities

testing-for-xxe-injection-vulnerabilities is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Njones17/AI-agent-master-cyber-skills-list. It costs 39 tokens per session (3,271 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A penetration-testing guide for finding XXE, or XML External Entity, injection: a flaw in XML parsers that can make servers read files or send requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test XML parsers and confirm XXE attack paths in authorised assessments.
Why use it?
It helps identify risks including server-file disclosure, server-side request forgery (SSRF), and data theft.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to test XML parsers and confirm XXE attack paths in authorised assessments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/njones17/ai-agent-master-cyber-skills-list/testing-for-xxe-injection-vulnerabilities
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 Njones17/AI-agent-master-cyber-skills-list --skill testing-for-xxe-injection-vulnerabilities
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Njones17/AI-agent-master-cyber-skills-list

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,271 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. 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 $0.00039 $0.03271
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01636
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00654
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00327

Measured 9d ago against content hash 574fda4d3f74, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

testing-for-xxe-injection-vulnerabilities scanned grade B 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 9d 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/iam/security-credentials/">

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

- **curl**: For manual payload crafting and submission
skills/application-security/testing-for-xxe-injection-vulnerabilities/SKILL.md · 340 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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. 9d ago First seen · 340 lines · 39 tokens per session scan B 574fda4d3f74

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testing-for-xxe-injection-vulnerabilities is a skill published in the GitHub repository Njones17/AI-agent-master-cyber-skills-list (21 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 3,271 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (cloud metadata endpoint, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.