Standardlikelihood: HighDraft
CAPEC-250XML Injection
Abstraction
Standard
Status
Draft
Likelihood
High
Description
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.
Related weaknesses· 4
Related attack patterns· 1
Exploits4
| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Improper Input Validationcwe-20 | 100% | live |
| Weakness | Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')cwe-74 | 100% | live |
| Weakness | Improper Neutralizationcwe-707 | 100% | live |
| Weakness | XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection)cwe-91 | 100% | live |
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.