Web Cache Deception — Deep Dive

Web Cache Deception — Deep Dive is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ShulkwiSEC/bb-huge. It costs 27 tokens per session (990 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of Access Control — Complete Deep Dive, MIT.

A hands-on guide to Web Cache Deception, a web attack that tricks a cache into storing private page content as if it were a public static file. It covers PortSwigger training labs, payloads, and bypass methods.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to practise PortSwigger labs, prepare for the BSCP certification, or investigate cache behaviour during authorised bug bounty and security assessments.
Why use it?
It helps security testers understand how differences between cache and server URL handling can expose account data. The guide provides examples for testing these weaknesses in authorised environments.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is - [`_shared/references/elite-chaining-strategy.md`](../_shared/references/elite-chaining-strategy.md) — Exploit chaining methodology and high-payout chain patte.

Good fit Use it to practise PortSwigger labs, prepare for the BSCP certification, or investigate cache behaviour during authorised bug bounty and security assessments.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShulkwiSEC/bb-huge
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shulkwisec/bb-huge/cache-deception

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 990 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 81% 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 $0.00027 $0.00990
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00495
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00099

Measured 6d ago against content hash 3c4519c72291, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Web Cache Deception — Deep Dive scanned grade A 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/process.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

tools: [burp-suite, curl, sqlmap, ffuf, python, hashcat, ysoserial]
Origin

This is a copy

81% identical to Access Control — Complete Deep Dive — 83 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.

skills/curated/cache-deception/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Web Cache Deception — Deep Dive

Deep-Dive Lab Playbook — Every PortSwigger lab variant with exact payloads, bypass techniques, and zero-day extensions. 🟢 Apprentice 🟡 Practitioner 🔴 Expert

When to Use

  • BSCP certification prep
  • Real-world bug bounty hunting
  • Building exploitation chains
  • Understanding bypass techniques

Prerequisites

  • Burp Suite Professional
  • Burp Collaborator / interactsh
  • Browser with proxy configured

Workflow

Phase 1: Reconnaissance

  • Identify input vectors, parameters, and application behavior.

Phase 2: Exploitation

  • Apply standard lab payloads.

Phase 3: Zero-Day Escalation

  • Fuzz filters, bypass WAFs, and chain with other vulns.

Lab Playbooks

Lab 1: Path mapping 🟡 PRACTITIONER

/my-account/abc.js — cache stores private page content because .js extension triggers caching. Path mapping routes /my-account/* to account page.

Lab 2: Path delimiters 🟡 PRACTITIONER

/my-account;abc.js — semicolon acts as delimiter. Backend ignores ;abc.js, cache sees .js extension.

Lab 3: Origin server normalization 🟡 PRACTITIONER

/my-account/..%2fstatic/resource.js — origin normalizes path traversal, serves account page. Cache uses full URL as key.

Lab 4: Cache server normalization 🟡 PRACTITIONER

Cache normalizes path but origin doesn't → mismatch enables deception.

Lab 5: Exact-match rules 🟡 PRACTITIONER

/my-account → cache has exact-match rule for this path. Add headers like X-Custom: 1 to force cache miss, then victim's cached response is served to attacker.

Blue Team Detection

  • Monitor access logs for anomalous payloads.
  • Implement strict input validation and parameterized queries where applicable.
  • Create WAF rules masking generic attack patterns.

Zero-Day Research

When standard technique fails:

  1. Identify the filter/WAF
  2. Fuzz with Burp Intruder custom wordlists
  3. Search GitHub/Twitter for new bypasses
  4. Chain with other vulns for escalation
  5. Try encoding variants: URL, double-URL, unicode, hex

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 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 · 112 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 3c4519c72291

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Web Cache Deception — Deep Dive is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShulkwiSEC/bb-huge (22 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 990 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 81% identical to Access Control — Complete Deep Dive, differing in 83 lines, and is treated as a copy.