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XSpear : Powerfull XSS Scanning & Parameter Analysis

XSpear is XSS Scanner on ruby gems.

Key Features

  • Pattern matching based XSS scanning
  • Detect alert confirm prompt event on headless browser (with Selenium)
  • Testing request/response for XSS protection bypass and reflected params
    • Reflected Params
    • Filtered test event handler HTML tag Special Char
  • Testing Blind XSS (with XSS Hunter , ezXSS, HBXSS, Etc all url base blind test…)
  • Dynamic/Static Analysis
    • Find SQL Error pattern
    • Analysis Security headers(CSP HSTS X-frame-options, XSS-protection etc.. )
    • Analysis Other headers..(Server version, Content-Type, etc…)
  • Scanning from Raw file(Burp suite, ZAP Request)
  • XSpear running on ruby code(with Gem library)
  • Show table base cli-report and filtered rule, testing raw query(url)
  • Testing at selected parameters
  • Support output format cli json
    • cli: summary, filtered rule(params), Raw Query
  • Support Verbose level (quit / nomal / raw data)
  • Support custom callback code to any test various attack vectors

Also Read : MSNM Sensor – Multivariate Statistical Network Monitoring Sensor

Installation

Install it yourself as:

$ gem install XSpear

Or install it yourself as (local file):

$ gem install XSpear-{version}.gem

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

gem ‘XSpear’

And then execute:

$ bundle

Dependency Gems

colorize selenium-webdriver terminal-table
If you configured it to install automatically in the Gem library, but it behaves abnormally, install it with the following command.

$ gem install colorize
$ gem install selenium-webdriver
$ gem install terminal-table

Usage On CLI

Usage: xspear -u [target] -[options] [value]
–> e.g
$ ruby a.rb -u ‘https://www.hahwul.com/?q=123′ –cookie=’role=admin’
–> Options
-u, –url=target_URL [required] Target Url
-d, –data=POST Body [optional] POST Method Body data
–headers=HEADERS [optional] Add HTTP Headers
–cookie=COOKIE [optional] Add Cookie
–raw=FILENAME [optional] Load raw file(e.g raw_sample.txt)
-p, –param=PARAM [optional] Test paramters
-b, –BLIND=URL [optional] Add vector of Blind XSS
+ with XSS Hunter, ezXSS, HBXSS, etc…
+ e.g : -b https://hahwul.xss.ht
-t, –threads=NUMBER [optional] thread , default: 10
-o, –output=FILENAME [optional] Save JSON Result
-v, –verbose=1~3 [optional] Show log depth
+ Default value: 2
+ v=1 : quite mode
+ v=2 : show scanning log
+ v=3 : show detail log(req/res)
-h, –help Prints this help
–version Show XSpear version
–update Update with online

Result Types

  • (I)NFO: Get information ( e.g sql error , filterd rule, reflected params, etc..)
  • (V)UNL: Vulnerable XSS, Checked alert/prompt/confirm with Selenium
  • (L)OW: Low level issue
  • (M)EDIUM: medium level issue
  • (H)IGH: high level issue

Case by Case

Scanning XSS

$ xspear -u “http://testphp.vulnweb.com/search.php?test=query” -d “searchFor=yy”

json output

$ xspear -u “http://testphp.vulnweb.com/search.php?test=query” -d “searchFor=yy” -o json -v 1

detail log

$ xspear -u “http://testphp.vulnweb.com/search.php?test=query” -d “searchFor=yy” -v 3

set thread

$ xspear -u “http://testphp.vulnweb.com/search.php?test=query” -t 30

testing at selected parameters

$ xspear -u “http://testphp.vulnweb.com/search.php?test=query&cat=123&ppl=1fhhahwul” -p cat,test

testing blind xss

$ xspear -u “http://testphp.vulnweb.com/search.php?test=query” -b “https://hahwul.xss.ht”

Update

if nomal user

$ gem update XSpear

if developers (soft)

$ git pull -v

if develpers (hard)

$ git reset –hard HEAD; git pull -v

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

ScreenShot

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