🔐 Vulnerability Payload Lists

A curated, modular, and powerful collection of payloads for web application vulnerability testing — built for ethical hackers, penetration testers, and cybersecurity researchers.

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🧰 What is this?

This repository provides a ready-to-use collection of real-world payloads commonly used in:

• 🕵️‍♂️ Bug bounty programs
• 🔍 Vulnerability assessments
• 🎯 Penetration testing
• 🧪 CTF challenges
• 🛡️ Security tool development

Each payload is handpicked, categorized, and formatted for maximum effectiveness.

⚠️ Disclaimer: This project is intended for educational and authorized testing purposes only. Any misuse of this content is strictly prohibited.

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🗂️ Directory Layout

Offensive-Payloads/
├── Command-Injection/
├── Directory-Traversal/
├── File-Extensions/
├── HTML-Injection/
├── IP-Headers/
├── Linux/
├── Open-Redirect/
├── PHP-Injection/
├── Reverse-Shell/
├── RFI-LFI/
├── SQLI/
├── SSRF/
├── Windows/
├── XSS/
└── XXE/

Each directory contains .txt or .md files with hand-curated payloads.

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📚 Categories & Payload Types

🧬 SQL Injection (SQLi)

• Generic error-based, time-based, and union-select payloads
• Auth bypass tricks
• JOIN/break queries

💉 Command Injection

• OS command payloads for Unix/Linux and Windows
• Logic chaining and bypass payloads

📂 File Inclusion (RFI / LFI)

• Local and remote inclusion
• Path traversal payloads

🧨 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

• Reflected / Stored / DOM-based
• File-read via injection
• Advanced WAF bypass strings

🧾 HTML Injection

• Classic and advanced HTML content injection payloads

🛰️ Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

• Internal resource discovery payloads
• SSRF chaining examples

🔀 Open Redirect

• Redirection bypass and manipulation payloads

🗃️ Directory Traversal

• OS path traversal vectors for Unix and Windows

📄 XML External Entity (XXE)

• XXE file read, SSRF, and out-of-band (OOB) payloads

🐘 PHP Injection

• Code injection payloads in PHP environments

🧷 MIME/File Extensions

• MIME-type & extension tricks for bypass and upload testing

🧾 IP Header Injection

• Spoofed headers for bypassing IP-based access controls

🐧 Linux / 🪟 Windows

• Sensitive file access
• Log file paths

🔄 Reverse Shells

• One-liner PHP reverse shell snippet

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🚀 Getting Started

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/KIRAN-KUMAR-K3/vulnerability-payload-lists.git
cd vulnerability-payload-lists

# Explore payloads
cat SQLI/Generic\ SQL\ Injection\ Payloads.txt

🛠️ Use payloads in tools like:

• Burp Suite
• OWASP ZAP
• Ffuf / Dirsearch / wfuzz
• Custom Python/Bash scripts
• Manual browser/postman testing

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✅ Perfect For

• ✔️ Ethical Hackers
• ✔️ Red / Blue Teamers
• ✔️ SOC Analysts
• ✔️ Cybersecurity Students
• ✔️ Bug Bounty Hunters
• ✔️ CTF Players

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🤝 Contribute

💡 Found a new payload? See something to improve?

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a branch
3. Add/edit payloads
4. Submit a pull request

All contributions are welcomed and appreciated 🙌

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📌 Legal Notice

⚠️ This project is for educational use only and should not be used against any system without explicit authorization. Use responsibly and follow the law.

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