dangling-markup-injection

dangling-markup-injection is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yaklang/hack-skills. It costs 67 tokens per session (3,325 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security testing playbook for stealing page content, form values, session data, or CSRF tokens through HTML injection when JavaScript is blocked. Dangling markup means leaving an HTML tag open so later page content is captured.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when testing an HTML injection point protected by a content-security policy, sanitizer, or web application firewall that blocks scripts.
Why use it?
It shows why blocked scripts do not always make an HTML injection harmless and explains how the remaining page content may be exposed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when testing an HTML injection point protected by a content-security policy, sanitizer, or web application firewall that blocks scripts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yaklang/hack-skills/dangling-markup-injection
About the project

HackSkills is an organized knowledge base of installable skills that gives AI agents practical security knowledge across areas such as web security, privilege escalation, reverse engineering, and digital forensics. It is intended for bug bounty work, penetration testing, CTF competitions, and authorized security research. The catalogue entries are the project's own master, category, and topic skills.

yaklang/hack-skills · 2,120 stars · on GitHub

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 yaklang/hack-skills --skill dangling-markup-injection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yaklang/hack-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,325 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket fail 9 Apr 2026
  • Snyk fail 9 Apr 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 76
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
How audits are shown
Origin original 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 $0.00067 $0.03325
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01663
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00665
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00332

Measured 8d ago against content hash 0fce78cc132d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dangling-markup-injection 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 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.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/dangling-markup-injection/SKILL.md · 322 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 322 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Dangling Markup Injection — Exfiltration Without JavaScript

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Covers dangling markup exfiltration via unclosed img/form/base/meta/link/table tags, what can be stolen (CSRF tokens, pre-filled form values, sensitive content), browser-specific behavior, and combinations with other attacks. Base models often overlook this technique entirely when CSP blocks scripts, jumping to "not exploitable" — dangling markup is the answer.


1. WHEN TO USE DANGLING MARKUP

You need dangling markup when ALL of these are true:

  1. You have an HTML injection point (reflected or stored)
  2. JavaScript execution is blocked:
    • CSP blocks inline scripts and event handlers
    • Sanitizer strips <script>, onerror, onload, etc.
    • WAF blocks known XSS patterns
  3. The page contains sensitive data AFTER your injection point:
    • CSRF tokens
    • Pre-filled form values (email, username, API keys)
    • Session identifiers in hidden fields
    • Sensitive user content

Core insight: You don't need JavaScript to exfiltrate data — you just need the browser to make a request that includes the data in the URL.


2. CORE TECHNIQUE

Inject an unclosed HTML tag with a src, href, action, or similar attribute pointing to your server. The unclosed attribute quote "consumes" all subsequent page content until the browser finds a matching quote.

Read the full file on GitHub · 322 lines

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 · 322 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 0fce78cc132d

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dangling-markup-injection is a skill published in the GitHub repository yaklang/hack-skills (2,120 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 3,325 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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