# Automated XSS

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[https://medium.com/@DrakenKun/how-i-was-able-to-find-4-cross-site-scripting-xss-on-vulnerability-disclosure-program-e2f39199a](https://medium.com/@DrakenKun/how-i-was-able-to-find-4-cross-site-scripting-xss-on-vulnerability-disclosure-program-e2f39199ae16)
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1. **`paramspider`**
2. **`gau`**
3. **`kxss`**
4. **`Arjun`**

### ParamSpider

Paramspider is used for digging parameters. These parameters are in **`FUZZ`** formated ,So it  can be used with Fuzzing like , fuff for several kinds of vuln  such as  XSS, SQL injection, SSRF, or open redirect.

It collect it's urls from web archiave.

```bash
python3 paramaspider -d example.com -o parameters.txt 
```

### kxss

kxss used for detecting xss. if check for unescaped " < > .

```bash
cat parameters.txt | kxss 
```

### gau

get all urls (gau) fetches known URLs from AlienVault's Open Threat Exchange, the Wayback Machine, Common Crawl, and URLScan for any given domain. Inspired by Tomnomnom's [waybackurls](https://github.com/tomnomnom/waybackurls).

```bash
gau example.com | grep "anything"
```

**Arjun**

arjun is used for finding parameter in a specific path.

```
arjun -u example.com/login.php
```


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