php-exploit-chain

A method for evaluating whether multiple PHP security flaws can be combined into a complete attack path. It also includes scanning Composer packages for known dependency vulnerabilities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine chains such as file writing to file inclusion to remote code execution, deserialization to sensitive operations, SQL injection to file writing, SSRF to internal services, and information disclosure to privilege escalation.
Why use it?
A vulnerability that seems limited on its own can become severe when combined with another weakness. This helps assess realistic chains instead of treating each finding as isolated.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/wgpsec/aboutsecurity/php-exploit-chain
Any agent
npx skills add wgpsec/AboutSecurity --skill php-exploit-chain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wgpsec/AboutSecurity

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,641 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00099 $0.01641
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00821
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00164

Measured 2d ago against content hash 435540b5f860, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

php-exploit-chain scanned grade A with 0 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 2d 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/code-audit/php/php-exploit-chain/SKILL.md · 81 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

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. 2d ago First seen · 81 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 435540b5f860

Subscribe to this mod's changes

php-exploit-chain is a skill published in the GitHub repository wgpsec/AboutSecurity (1,705 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 1,641 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.