Background:
This is logged on the back of the discussion with the ZAP team about the current behaviour of XML External Entity Attack scanner. There were two concerns raised in this discussion. I am creating seperate tickets for them as they can be addressed independent of each other. F

What's the issue?
Overwritten test scenario, can be summarized and link to payload lists from other repos

How do we solve it?
Chop down the content to the required and needed information, link to payload lists instead of enumerating all possible usernames and passwords, provide further guidance on how to test.

If no one is up to handle it, I can take care of it

Description

BeanUtils is a library that is doing automatic mapping to Java object.
It can cause arm when the attack controls part of the list of properties being sets. BeanUtils does not blacklist properties like class, classloader or other objects that are likely to load arbitrary classes and possibly run code.

Code

import org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtils;

public

The component_name and component_version fields were added recently. Some scanners already populate these fields, but lots of them don't. For some scanners these fields cannot be set, i.e. for scanners that try xss on web pages etc. But probably there are some scanners that can/should be updated.