# XML Security Cheat Sheet — Traditional Jumbo Payloads

> There are two primary methods to make a document larger than normal Depth attack: using a huge number of elements, element names, and/or element values.

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## Knowledge

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There are two primary methods to make a document larger than normal

Depth attack: using a huge number of elements, element names, and/or element values.

Width attack: using a huge number of attributes, attribute names, and/or attribute values.

In most cases, the overall result will be a huge document. This is a short example of what this looks like

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```xml
&lt;SOAPENV:ENVELOPE XMLNS:SOAPENV="HTTP://SCHEMAS.XMLSOAP.ORG/SOAP/ENVELOPE/"
                  XMLNS:EXT="HTTP://COM/IBM/WAS/WSSAMPLE/SEI/ECHO/B2B/EXTERNAL"&gt;
 &lt;SOAPENV:HEADER LARGENAME1="LARGEVALUE"
                 LARGENAME2="LARGEVALUE2"
                 LARGENAME3="LARGEVALUE3" …&gt;
 ...
```

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