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CAPEC-250: XML Injection

ID CAPEC-250
Likelihood Of Attack High
Status Draft

An attacker utilizes crafted XML user-controllable input to probe, attack, and inject data into the XML database, using techniques similar to SQL injection. The user-controllable input can allow for unauthorized viewing of data, bypassing authentication or the front-end application for direct XML database access, and possibly altering database information.

https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/250.html

Weaknesses

# ID Name Type
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') weakness
CWE-91 XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection) weakness
CWE-707 Improper Neutralization weakness

Taxonomiy Mapping

Type # ID Name
WASC 23 XML Injection