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API Reference: Testing for XML Injection Vulnerabilities

XXE Payload Types

Payload Severity Description
File read (Linux) Critical file:///etc/passwd entity inclusion
File read (Windows) Critical file:///c:/windows/win.ini entity
SSRF via HTTP Critical Entity fetching internal metadata URL
Parameter entity High External DTD loading via %entity
Billion laughs High Recursive entity expansion (DoS)
UTF-7 encoding High Encoding bypass for WAF evasion

XPath Injection Payloads

Payload Purpose
' or '1'='1 Boolean-based auth bypass
'] | //user/password | //foo[' Data extraction via union
1 or 1=1 Numeric context injection

Detection Indicators

Attack Success Indicator
Linux file read root: in response body
Windows file read [fonts] or extensions in response
SSRF metadata ami-id or instance-id in response
Billion laughs Response time > 5 seconds
Content-type switch XML accepted when JSON expected
SVG XXE root: in upload response

Python Libraries

Library Version Purpose
requests >=2.28 HTTP POST with XML payloads
json stdlib Report generation
pathlib stdlib Output directory management

References