detecting-xss-vulnerabilities-in-web-apps

detecting-xss-vulnerabilities-in-web-apps is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from withcrux/agentHack-skills. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,804 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A security-testing guide for finding Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in web applications. XSS is a flaw that lets unsafe input run as code in another user’s browser.

In plain words
What is it for?
Testing reflected, stored, and browser-based XSS with manual payloads and browser analysis in isolated lab environments.
Why use it?
It helps identify cases where an application fails to safely handle user-controlled content.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Testing reflected, stored, and browser-based XSS with manual payloads and browser analysis in isolated lab environments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/withcrux/agenthack-skills/detecting-xss-vulnerabilities-in-web-apps
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-xss-vulnerabilities-in-web-apps
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/withcrux/agentHack-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,804 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00057 $0.01804
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00902
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00361
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00180

Measured 11d ago against content hash 49ae9f67efb6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

detecting-xss-vulnerabilities-in-web-apps scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -I http://localhost:8081/ | grep -i "content-security-policy"
skills/detecting-xss-vulnerabilities-in-web-apps/SKILL.md · 209 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 · 209 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 49ae9f67efb6

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detecting-xss-vulnerabilities-in-web-apps is a skill published in the GitHub repository withcrux/agentHack-skills (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,804 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (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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