There are many Struts 2 developers familiar with the Struts 2 development mode on which more verbose logs are produced and handy resource reloading is done on a request basis to avoid restarting the server every time we change a property, validator and so on. What it is not so well known (actually it doesn’t even appear in the Struts 2 devmode site) is that it enables a OGNL injection backdoor allowing the developers to check their Value Stacks with ease and from a handy OGNL console or request parameter.