Understanding XPath injection with practical examples.

In this writing you will learn about XPath injections and I will try to be as clear as possible.

What is an xpath injection?

XPath injection vulnerabilities arise when user-controllable data is incorporated into XPath queries in an unsafe manner. An attacker can supply crafted input to break out of the data context in which their input appears and interfere with the structure of the surrounding query.

Depending on the purpose for which the vulnerable query is being…