xxe-poc

xxe-poc is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zebbern/termstack. It costs 4 tokens per session (3,486 once invoked), scanned D, original, no licence file.

Exploit XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerabilities to read local files, perform SSRF attacks, and exfiltrate data. XXE occurs when XML parsers process external entity declarations in user-supplied XML input without proper restrictions.

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/zebbern/termstack/xxe-poc
Any agent
npx skills add zebbern/termstack --skill xxe-poc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zebbern/termstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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 xxe-poc

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zebbern/termstack/xxe-poc"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zebbern/termstack/xxe-poc.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 4 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,486 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 2 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 $0.00004 $0.03486
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.01743
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00697
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00349

Measured today against content hash 94f7210eefa0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

xxe-poc scanned grade D 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 today.

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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- External Entity (SYSTEM) -->

Cloud metadata endpointmediumServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

<!ENTITY xxe SYSTEM "http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/">

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

.github/skills/xxe-poc/SKILL.md · 537 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. today First seen · 537 lines · 4 tokens per session scan D 94f7210eefa0

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xxe-poc is a skill published in the GitHub repository zebbern/termstack (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 4 tokens to every session and 3,486 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (hidden instructions, cloud metadata endpoint). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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