offensive-waf-bypass

offensive-waf-bypass is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SnailSploit/Claude-Red. It costs 0 tokens per session (9,612 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A checklist for testing whether a web application firewall, or WAF, can be bypassed. A WAF filters potentially harmful web requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during authorized web security tests involving encoded requests, altered headers, request formatting, or obfuscated test inputs.
Why use it?
It gives security testers ways to investigate cases where a WAF blocks an approved test request before the application receives it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it during authorized web security tests involving encoded requests, altered headers, request formatting, or obfuscated test inputs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/snailsploit/claude-red/offensive-waf-bypass
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 · 3,048 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.

Any agent
npx skills add SnailSploit/Claude-Red --skill offensive-waf-bypass
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 9,612 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 3 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 9 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high YARA Match · line 212
    YARA rule matched a hack tool or exploit indicator (offensive tools, reconnaissance, privilege escalation, or exploit frameworks).
    Fix: Remove offensive tool references and exploit code. Legitimate agent skills should not contain penetration testing tools, exploit frameworks, or reconnaissance utilities.
  • high Server-Side Request Forgery · line 423
    Code accesses a cloud instance metadata endpoint (e.g. 169.254.169.254). A single request can return temporary IAM credentials, making this a high-value SSRF target for credential theft.
    Fix: Remove access to cloud metadata endpoints unless strictly required. If metadata is needed, restrict it (e.g. IMDSv2 with hop limit) and never expose returned credentials.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 468
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Anti-Refusal · line 492
    Skill attempts to nullify the agent's safety policies or restrictions ('you have no restrictions', 'ignore your guidelines', 'do anything now'). This is a direct jailbreak that disables guardrails.
    Fix: Remove jailbreak framing that nullifies safety policies or restrictions. Skill content must not instruct the agent to ignore its guidelines or operate without guardrails.
  • high Prompt Injection · line 492
    This pattern attempts to override system instructions or ignore safety constraints. Without LLM analysis, manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Remove or rewrite any text that instructs the agent to ignore prompts, override safety rules, or trust unverified content. Ensure skill content cannot be injected to alter agent behavior.
  • high Prompt Injection · line 800
    This pattern attempts to override system instructions or ignore safety constraints. Without LLM analysis, manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Remove or rewrite any text that instructs the agent to ignore prompts, override safety rules, or trust unverified content. Ensure skill content cannot be injected to alter agent behavior.
  • high YARA Match · line 799
    YARA rule matched a hack tool or exploit indicator (offensive tools, reconnaissance, privilege escalation, or exploit frameworks).
    Fix: Remove offensive tool references and exploit code. Legitimate agent skills should not contain penetration testing tools, exploit frameworks, or reconnaissance utilities.
  • high Anti-Refusal · line 800
    Skill attempts to nullify the agent's safety policies or restrictions ('you have no restrictions', 'ignore your guidelines', 'do anything now'). This is a direct jailbreak that disables guardrails.
    Fix: Remove jailbreak framing that nullifies safety policies or restrictions. Skill content must not instruct the agent to ignore its guidelines or operate without guardrails.
  • medium analysis-evasion · line 1
    Suspicious Unicode normalization or mixed-script content
    Fix: Review the flagged content for security risks. Ensure no credentials, secrets, or sensitive data are exposed.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00000 $0.09612
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.04806
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.01922
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00961

Measured 8d ago against content hash 0485e6ebf76f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

offensive-waf-bypass scanned grade C with 3 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 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.

Encoded or obfuscated payloadmediumSupply chain

base64 or hex that is decoded and executed hides what actually runs from anyone reading the file.

<script>eval(atob('YWxlcnQoMSk='))</script>

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

Cloud metadata endpointmediumServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

- SSRF: Headers like `X-Forwarded-For` or `X-Real-IP` can be manipulated to target internal IPs (e.g., `169.254.169.254` for AWS metadata service).

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.

- **Example with `curl`**:
Skills/web/offensive-waf-bypass/SKILL.md · 819 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 819 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: WAF Bypass Techniques

Metadata

Description

WAF bypass techniques checklist: encoding bypass (URL/HTML/Unicode/double encoding), case variation, comment injection, HTTP header manipulation, chunked encoding, IP rotation, timing attacks, and payload obfuscation per WAF vendor. Use when WAF is blocking payloads during web app tests.

Trigger Phrases

Use this skill when the conversation involves any of: WAF bypass, web application firewall bypass, URL encoding, double encoding, Unicode bypass, comment injection, HTTP header bypass, chunked encoding, IP rotation, payload obfuscation, WAF evasion

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

WAF Bypass Techniques

A Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a security tool that protects web applications from various attacks by analyzing HTTP requests and applying rules to identify and block suspicious traffic. This document outlines effective techniques to bypass WAF protections during security assessments.

graph TD
    A[Client] -->|HTTP Request| B[WAF]
    B -->|Filtered Request| C[Web Application]
    C -->|Response| D[WAF]
    D -->|Filtered Response| A

    E[Attacker] -->|Malicious Request| B
    B -->|Blocked| E

    F[Attacker with<br>Bypass Techniques] -->|Obfuscated<br>Malicious Request| B
    B -->|Request Appears Legitimate| C

    style B fill:#f9a,stroke:#333,color:#333
    style E fill:#f66,stroke:#333,color:#333
    style F fill:#f66,stroke:#333,color:#333

WAF Overview

WAFs operate in two primary models:

Read the full file on GitHub · 819 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. 8d ago First seen · 819 lines · 0 tokens per session scan C 0485e6ebf76f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

offensive-waf-bypass is a skill published in the GitHub repository SnailSploit/Claude-Red (3,048 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 9,612 tokens. A static security scan graded it C with 3 findings (encoded or obfuscated payload, cloud metadata endpoint, 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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