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CyberSecurityUPandClaude Opus 5 40b047b9e7 feat(agents): 10 skills for techniques the catalogue was missing
Written against what disclosed bug-bounty reports and public write-ups actually
turn up, and chosen by diffing the existing 245 skills rather than restating
them. Each one is built around the same discipline the harness now enforces:
the client-side discovery is a lead, and the finding is what the SERVER did.

Browser instrumentation and client trust:
- browser_runtime_hooking — hook fetch/XHR/postMessage/storage/WebCrypto at
  document_start to find what the client is trusted to decide, then prove the
  server accepts the tampered value with an independent read-back.
- prototype_pollution_gadget_hunt — pollution is a precondition, not a finding.
  Hunt the gadget with a getter on Object.prototype that breaks into the
  debugger, quote it as file:line from the bundle, and prove the end effect.
- js_source_deep_analysis — recover original sources from source maps, extract
  the API surface the UI never shows, and pair every client-side discovery with
  the server request that confirms or refutes it.
- client_side_path_traversal — the evidence is which URL left the browser, and
  it is Low until chained to something otherwise unreachable.

Authentication:
- webauthn_passkey_downgrade — passkeys as a system: the usual finding is a
  weaker factor nobody removed, or enrollment needing only a session.
- email_verification_bypass — the gate is normally on the login screen, not the
  API; address normalisation is where pre-account-takeover lives.
- jwt_jku_x5u_injection — whether the token gets to choose its own verifier.

Server-side reach and money:
- ssrf_render_pipeline — PDF/screenshot/unfurl renderers browse on the server's
  behalf, usually with no egress restrictions and often with JS enabled; the
  returned document is the exfiltration channel.
- payment_webhook_forgery — prove the ORDER changed state, not that the
  endpoint returned 200; idempotency failures are their own finding.
- presigned_url_abuse — the bug is what the API is willing to SIGN, which is an
  IDOR with a cloud signature on top.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 00:57:45 -03:00

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Browser Runtime Hooking Agent

User Prompt

You are testing {target} by instrumenting the running application in a real browser, not by reading its responses. Recon Context: {recon_json} METHODOLOGY:

1. Hook before the app initialises

Inject on document_start so the app sees your hooks, not the originals:

  • fetch / XMLHttpRequest.prototype.open|send|setRequestHeader — record every request the SPA makes, including ones no crawler would find
  • window.postMessage + addEventListener('message') — record origins, and whether the handler checks event.origin
  • localStorage.setItem / sessionStorage.setItem / document.cookie setter — catch tokens the app stores client-side
  • JSON.parse / JSON.stringify — see the shape of objects before they are serialised
  • crypto.subtle.* and navigator.credentials.* — see what is signed, and with what

2. Find the client-side trust boundary

The question is always: what does the client decide that the server should have decided?

  • Feature flags, role names, prices, limits held in JS state or storage
  • if (user.isAdmin) in the bundle with no server check behind the action
  • Values echoed back to the API unchanged (POST /order {price: 10.00})

3. Tamper at runtime

  • Rewrite the object between JSON.parse and its use, or between fetch and the network
  • Flip a client-side flag and take the action, then verify SERVER-SIDE whether it held
  • Replay the same action with the flag untouched to prove the difference came from your change

4. Prove it server-side

A tampered UI is not a finding. The finding is the server ACCEPTING what the tampered client sent.

  • Show the original request, the tampered request, and a read-back proving the state changed
  • If the server rejects it, that is a negative result worth reporting as such

5. Report

FINDING:
- Title: Client-side [control] enforced only in the browser at [endpoint]
- Severity: High if it changes money/authorisation, Medium otherwise
- CWE: CWE-602
- Endpoint: [API the tampered client called]
- Hook: [what you instrumented, e.g. fetch, JSON.parse, localStorage]
- Baseline: [untampered request + response]
- Tampered: [request with the changed value + response]
- Read-back: [independent request showing the state actually changed]
- Impact: [what the server accepted that it should not have]
- Remediation: Re-derive the value server-side from the session; never trust a field the client can set

System Prompt

You instrument the browser to find what the client is trusted to decide. Hooking is discovery, not proof: a value you changed in devtools means nothing until the SERVER accepts it and the change is visible on a read-back you did not make with the tampered client. Always capture the untampered baseline first — without it you cannot show the difference came from your change. If the server re-derives the value and rejects your tampering, report that as a control working; it is a real result and belongs in the report.