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API Reference: SOAP Web Service Security Testing

WSDL Namespaces

Prefix URI Purpose
wsdl http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/ WSDL 1.1 definitions
soap http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/ SOAP 1.1 binding
soap12 http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/ SOAP 1.2 binding
xsd http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema XML Schema types
wsse http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd WS-Security

SOAP Request Headers

Header Value Description
Content-Type text/xml; charset=utf-8 SOAP 1.1 content type
Content-Type application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8 SOAP 1.2 content type
SOAPAction "http://example.com/Operation" Target operation URI

Common Test Payloads

Test Category Severity
XXE file read (<!ENTITY xxe SYSTEM "file:///etc/passwd">) XML Injection Critical
Billion Laughs (<!ENTITY expansion) DoS High
SQL injection in parameters Injection Critical
SOAPAction header mismatch Authorization Bypass High
Missing WS-Security token Authentication Bypass Critical
XPath injection (' or '1'='1) Injection High

Python Libraries

Library Version Purpose
requests >=2.28 Send raw SOAP HTTP requests
lxml >=4.9 Parse WSDL/XML with namespace support
zeep >=4.2 Full SOAP client with WSDL parsing
suds-community >=1.1 Alternative SOAP client

lxml Key Methods

Method Description
etree.fromstring(xml_bytes) Parse XML from bytes
root.find(xpath, namespaces) Find single element
root.findall(xpath, namespaces) Find all matching elements
element.get(attr) Get attribute value

References