← All recipes
Moderne licensed

Find XPath injection vectors

Recipe IDorg.openrewrite.java.security.search.FindXPathInjection
Artifactorg.openrewrite.recipe:rewrite-java-security

Finds calls to XPath.evaluate() and XPath.compile() which, when the expression is built from user input, can allow XPath injection attacks. Use parameterized XPath expressions or input validation instead.

Composite recipeCWE-643securityProprietary

Usage

This recipe has no required configuration options. You’ll need the Moderne CLI configured before running the command below.

mod run . --recipe org.openrewrite.java.security.search.FindXPathInjection

If the recipe isn’t available locally, install it with:

mod config recipes jar install org.openrewrite.recipe:rewrite-java-security:3.36.0

Definition

This recipe runs the following recipes in order.

Data tables

Structured output this recipe can produce.

  • Method callsThe text of matching method invocations.org.openrewrite.java.table.MethodCalls
  • Source files that had resultsSource files that were modified by the recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileResults
  • Source files that had search resultsSearch results that were found during the recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SearchResults
  • Source files that errored on a recipeThe details of all errors produced by a recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileErrors
  • Recipe performanceStatistics used in analyzing the performance of recipes.org.openrewrite.table.RecipeRunStats