id: xss-deprecated-header-detect info: name: Detect Deprecated XSS Protection Header author: joshlarsen severity: info description: Setting the XSS-Protection header is deprecated by most browsers. Setting the header to anything other than `0` can actually introduce an XSS vulnerability. reference: - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/X-XSS-Protection - https://owasp.org/www-project-secure-headers/#x-xss-protection tags: xss,misconfig,generic requests: - method: GET path: - "{{BaseURL}}" matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: regex part: header regex: - "(?i)x-xss-protection: 0" negative: true - type: regex part: header regex: - "(?i)x-xss-protection: 1+" extractors: - type: kval part: header kval: - x_xss_protection