Damn Small XSS Scanner (DSXS) is a fully functional Cross-site scripting vulnerability scanner (supporting GET and POST parameters) written in under 100 lines of code.
As of optional settings it supports HTTP proxy together with HTTP header values User-Agent
, Referer
and Cookie
.
$ python dsxs.py -h
Damn Small XSS Scanner (DSXS) < 100 LoC (Lines of Code) #v0.2d
by: Miroslav Stampar (@stamparm)
Usage: dsxs.py [options]
Options:
--version show program's version number and exit
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-u URL, --url=URL Target URL (e.g. "http://www.target.com/page.htm?id=1")
--data=DATA POST data (e.g. "query=test")
--cookie=COOKIE HTTP Cookie header value
--user-agent=UA HTTP User-Agent header value
--referer=REFERER HTTP Referer header value
--proxy=PROXY HTTP proxy address (e.g. "http://127.0.0.1:8080")
$ python dsxs.py -u "http://testphp.vulnweb.com/search.php?test=query" --data="s
earchFor=foobar"
Damn Small XSS Scanner (DSXS) < 100 LoC (Lines of Code) #v0.2d
by: Miroslav Stampar (@stamparm)
* scanning GET parameter 'test'
* scanning POST parameter 'searchFor'
(i) POST parameter 'searchFor' appears to be XSS vulnerable (">.xss.<", outside
of tags, no filtering)
scan results: possible vulnerabilities found
$ python dsxs.py -u "http://public-firing-range.appspot.com/address/location.has
h/replace"
Damn Small XSS Scanner (DSXS) < 100 LoC (Lines of Code) #v0.2d
by: Miroslav Stampar (@stamparm)
(i) page itself appears to be XSS vulnerable (DOM)
(o) ...<script>
var payload = window.location.hash.substr(1);location.replace(payload);
</script>...
(x) no usable GET/POST parameters found
scan results: possible vulnerabilities found
Python version 2.6.x or 2.7.x is required for running this program.