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Elasticsearch Query DSL Injection Detector

elasticsearch-query-injection is a high severity check in the databases category, written in python. Its source is templates/databases/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-query-injection.py in cert-x-gen-templates.

Detects Elasticsearch Query DSL injection vulnerabilities through boolean-based injection, script field injection, and aggregation parameter manipulation testing

Field Value
Id elasticsearch-query-injection
Severity high
Language python
Category databases
Author BugB Technologies
Template version not recorded
Confidence not recorded
CVSS not recorded
Weakness CWE-943
Tags elasticsearch, injection, dsl, query-injection, script-injection, nosql
Target kind not recorded
Oracle not recorded

The file declares @reference as well. Those are not tabled above; read the source for what they carry.

To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:

Terminal window
cxg template info elasticsearch-query-injection

The id it prints is the one to pass anywhere a template is selected. See cxg template for the rest of the subcommand, Scan a target for running a scan, and A match is not a finding for how to read what comes back.