http-host-header-attacks

http-host-header-attacks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wgpsec/AboutSecurity. It costs 136 tokens per session (2,005 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

A security-testing guide for attacks that abuse the HTTP Host header, which tells a web server which hostname a request targets. It covers password resets, caching, redirects, reverse proxies, and virtual hosts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when assessing password-reset flows, caching, proxy routing, redirects, or multiple sites sharing one server. It supports virtual-host discovery and checks involving Host, X-Forwarded-Host, and related request fields.
Why use it?
It helps find cases where an application trusts a forged hostname and creates unsafe reset links, cache entries, redirects, or internal requests. It also covers alternate headers and unusual request formats used in testing.

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 when assessing password-reset flows, caching, proxy routing, redirects, or multiple sites sharing one server. It supports virtual-host discovery and checks involving Host, X-Forwarded-Host, and related request fields.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wgpsec/aboutsecurity/http-host-header-attacks
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 wgpsec/AboutSecurity --skill http-host-header-attacks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wgpsec/AboutSecurity

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

agentmods badge for http-host-header-attacks

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wgpsec/aboutsecurity/http-host-header-attacks.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/wgpsec/aboutsecurity/http-host-header-attacks)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wgpsec/aboutsecurity/http-host-header-attacks"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wgpsec/aboutsecurity/http-host-header-attacks.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 136 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,005 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 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 $0.00136 $0.02005
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.01002
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00401
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00200

Measured 4d ago against content hash d294de558741, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

http-host-header-attacks scanned grade C 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 4d 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 endpointhighServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

Host: 169.254.169.254 ← 云元数据

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -X POST https://target.com/forgot-password \
skills/exploit/web-method/http-host-header-attacks/SKILL.md · 248 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. 4d ago First seen · 248 lines · 136 tokens per session scan C d294de558741

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http-host-header-attacks is a skill published in the GitHub repository wgpsec/AboutSecurity (1,721 stars, last pushed 8d ago), with no licence file. It adds 136 tokens to every session and 2,005 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C 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.