General Information

XPATH Injection

Variants:
Direct Persistent Session 

Vector Type:
Attack

Relevance:
Generic

Layer:
Application-Level

Platforms:
Any

Target Type:
Application

Affected Mechanisms:
Input Validation, Syntax Escaping

Invented In:
18/05/2004

Added In:
25/12/2014

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Vector Operation Method:
Malicious inputs can affect the structure of XPath queries


Direct Variant:

XPATH Injection

Variant Title:
XPATH Injection

Typical Severity:
Major

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Persistent Variant:

Stored XPATH Injection

Also Known As:
Persistent XPATH Injection

Typical Severity:
Major

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Session Variant:

XPATH Injection via Session Puzzling

Also Known As:
Session XPATH Injection

Typical Severity:
Major

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