---
id: 8213
title: "Forcing XXE Reflection through Server Error Messages"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/web-application-pentesting/forcing-xxe-reflection-server-error-messages/"
published_at: "2015-05-04T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["xxe", "xml", "web-pentesting", "oob-exfiltration", "external-dtd"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8213"
lang: en
---

# Forcing XXE Reflection through Server Error Messages

## Summary

Covers an out-of-band XXE technique that uses an external DTD hosted on an attacker server to exfiltrate local files when the vulnerable application does not reflect responses.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2015-05-04T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/web-application-pentesting/forcing-xxe-reflection-server-error-messages/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8213