api-12-xxe

api-12-xxe is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vigilantshield/Claude-HunterKit. It costs 69 tokens per session (8,362 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

A checklist for testing XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerabilities, where unsafe XML processing can let an attacker access files or make unwanted network requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during web-application XXE testing or bug-bounty reviews, including SVG, DOCX, SOAP, REST, blind, and filter-bypass cases.
Why use it?
It helps security testers check common and less obvious ways XML inputs, uploaded files, or web-service messages may be abused.

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 during web-application XXE testing or bug-bounty reviews, including SVG, DOCX, SOAP, REST, blind, and filter-bypass cases.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vigilantshield/claude-hunterkit/api-12-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 vigilantshield/Claude-HunterKit --skill api-12-xxe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vigilantshield/Claude-HunterKit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,362 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.
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 $0.00069 $0.08362
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.04181
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.01672
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00836

Measured 8d ago against content hash fa96175e4210, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

api-12-xxe 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.

Reaches for credential filesmediumPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

<!DOCTYPE root [<!ENTITY xxe SYSTEM "file:///home/runner/.ssh/id_rsa">]>

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.

S->>C: Request cloud metadata (169.254.169.254)

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 -k https://kubernetes.default.svc/api/v1/namespaces/default/pods \
skills/api/api-12-xxe/SKILL.md · 1,055 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

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. 8d ago First seen · 1,055 lines · 69 tokens per session scan C fa96175e4210

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api-12-xxe is a skill published in the GitHub repository vigilantshield/Claude-HunterKit (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 8,362 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 3 findings (reaches for credential files, cloud metadata endpoint, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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