detecting-lfi-path-traversal-vulnerabilities

detecting-lfi-path-traversal-vulnerabilities is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from withcrux/agentHack-skills. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,566 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

A security-testing guide for finding local file inclusion and path traversal flaws. These flaws can let a web request read files that should remain private on the server.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for manually testing file-reading vulnerabilities, encoding bypasses, log poisoning, and PHP wrapper techniques.
Why use it?
It helps identify unsafe file-reading behavior and test common ways attackers bypass path restrictions, in isolated Docker labs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit It is for manually testing file-reading vulnerabilities, encoding bypasses, log poisoning, and PHP wrapper techniques.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/withcrux/agenthack-skills/detecting-lfi-path-traversal-vulnerabilities
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 withcrux/agentHack-skills --skill detecting-lfi-path-traversal-vulnerabilities
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/withcrux/agentHack-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,566 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 $0.00061 $0.01566
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00783
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00313
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00157

Measured 11d ago against content hash 045f09c2809d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

detecting-lfi-path-traversal-vulnerabilities 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 11d 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 fileshighPrivilege escalation

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

curl "http://localhost:8083/?page=../../../etc/shadow" # Requires root

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl "http://localhost:8083/?page=../../../etc/passwd"
skills/detecting-lfi-path-traversal-vulnerabilities/SKILL.md · 165 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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. 11d ago First seen · 165 lines · 61 tokens per session scan C 045f09c2809d

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detecting-lfi-path-traversal-vulnerabilities is a skill published in the GitHub repository withcrux/agentHack-skills (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,566 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (reaches for credential files, 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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