offensive-file-upload

offensive-file-upload is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SnailSploit/Claude-Red. It costs 0 tokens per session (7,736 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A checklist for finding security flaws in web forms and endpoints that accept uploaded files. It covers ways attackers may bypass file checks or cause harmful files to be stored or processed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Assessing upload endpoints during web application penetration tests or bug bounty work, including MIME and extension bypasses, path traversal, harmful SVG or HTML uploads, server-side processing attacks, and race conditions.
Why use it?
File upload systems often trust filename extensions, declared file types, or file contents in unsafe ways. The checklist helps testers examine these different failure points systematically.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

claude-red is a library of structured skills that give Claude specialized offensive-security methods for areas such as web vulnerabilities, shellcode, exploit development, and identity systems. It is intended for authorized red-team work, bug-bounty triage, security research, CTF preparation, and operator training. Its catalogue contains the project's skills for loading these security specializations into Claude.

SnailSploit/Claude-Red · 3,026 stars · on GitHub

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/snailsploit/claude-red/offensive-file-upload
Any agent
npx skills add SnailSploit/Claude-Red --skill offensive-file-upload
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SnailSploit/Claude-Red

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,736 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.07736
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.03868
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.01547
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00774

Measured 5d ago against content hash afd9029b2171, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

offensive-file-upload 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 5d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- **Tar Permissions Abuse**: Create tar with restrictive parent dir permissions (`chmod 300`) but permissive subdir (`chmod 700`) containing symlinks.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

response = requests.post(target_url, data=multipart_data, headers=headers)
Skills/web/offensive-file-upload/SKILL.md · 821 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 821 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: File Upload Vulnerabilities

Metadata

Description

File upload vulnerability checklist: MIME type bypass, extension bypass, magic byte manipulation, path traversal in filenames, stored XSS via SVG/HTML upload, server-side processing attacks, and race conditions. Use for assessing file upload endpoints in web app pentests or bug bounty.

Trigger Phrases

Use this skill when the conversation involves any of: file upload, MIME bypass, extension bypass, magic byte, path traversal upload, SVG XSS, polyglot, upload bypass, malicious upload, web shell upload

Instructions for Claude

When this skill is active:

  1. Load and apply the full methodology below as your operational checklist
  2. Follow steps in order unless the user specifies otherwise
  3. For each technique, consider applicability to the current target/context
  4. Track which checklist items have been completed
  5. Suggest next steps based on findings

Full Methodology

File Upload Vulnerabilities

Mechanisms

flowchart TD
    A[File Upload Vulnerabilities] --> B[Insufficient File Type Validation]
    A --> C[Improper Extension Handling]
    A --> D[Inadequate File Content Analysis]
    A --> E[Unsafe File Storage]
    A --> F[File Operation Mishandling]
    A --> G[Directory Traversal]
    A --> H[Race Conditions]

    B --> I[Remote Code Execution]
    C --> I
    D --> J[Client-Side Attacks]
    E --> I
    F --> K[Denial of Service]
    G --> L[Arbitrary File Access]
    H --> I

File upload vulnerabilities occur when web applications allow users to upload files without implementing proper validation, filtering, and handling mechanisms. These vulnerabilities can lead to various attacks, ranging from simple web defacement to complete server compromise through remote code execution.

The core technical issues behind file upload vulnerabilities include:

Read the full file on GitHub · 821 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 821 lines · 0 tokens per session scan B afd9029b2171

Subscribe to this mod's changes

offensive-file-upload is a skill published in the GitHub repository SnailSploit/Claude-Red (3,026 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 7,736 tokens. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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