diff --git a/cmd/nuclei/main.go b/cmd/nuclei/main.go
index e1a3bfb1c..13fb0d69d 100644
--- a/cmd/nuclei/main.go
+++ b/cmd/nuclei/main.go
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/utils/env"
 	_ "github.com/projectdiscovery/utils/pprof"
 	stringsutil "github.com/projectdiscovery/utils/strings"
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
 
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/goflags"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/gologger"
@@ -261,6 +262,7 @@ on extensive configurability, massive extensibility and ease of use.`)
 		flagSet.BoolVarP(&options.FormatUseRequiredOnly, "required-only", "ro", false, "use only required fields in input format when generating requests"),
 		flagSet.BoolVarP(&options.SkipFormatValidation, "skip-format-validation", "sfv", false, "skip format validation (like missing vars) when parsing input file"),
 		flagSet.BoolVarP(&options.VarsTextTemplating, "vars-text-templating", "vtt", false, "enable text templating for vars in input file (only for yaml input mode)"),
+		flagSet.StringSliceVarP(&options.VarsFilePaths, "var-file-paths", "vfp", nil, "list of yaml file contained vars to inject into yaml input", goflags.CommaSeparatedStringSliceOptions),
 	)
 
 	flagSet.CreateGroup("templates", "Templates",
@@ -569,6 +571,7 @@ Additional documentation is available at: https://docs.nuclei.sh/getting-started
 		config.DefaultConfig.SetConfigDir(customConfigDir)
 		readFlagsConfig(flagSet)
 	}
+
 	if cfgFile != "" {
 		if !fileutil.FileExists(cfgFile) {
 			gologger.Fatal().Msgf("given config file '%s' does not exist", cfgFile)
@@ -577,6 +580,34 @@ Additional documentation is available at: https://docs.nuclei.sh/getting-started
 		if err := flagSet.MergeConfigFile(cfgFile); err != nil {
 			gologger.Fatal().Msgf("Could not read config: %s\n", err)
 		}
+
+		if !options.Vars.IsEmpty() {
+			// Maybe we should add vars to the config file as well?
+			file, err := os.Open(cfgFile)
+			if err != nil {
+				gologger.Fatal().Msgf("Could not open config file: %s\n", err)
+			}
+			defer file.Close()
+			data := make(map[string]interface{})
+			err = yaml.NewDecoder(file).Decode(&data)
+			if err != nil {
+				gologger.Fatal().Msgf("Could not decode config file: %s\n", err)
+			}
+
+			variables := data["var"]
+			if variables != nil {
+				for _, value := range variables.([]interface{}) {
+					if strVal, ok := value.(string); ok {
+						options.Vars.Set(strVal)
+					} else {
+						gologger.Warning().Msgf("Skipping non-string variable in config: %#v", value)
+					}
+				}
+			} else {
+				gologger.Warning().Msgf("No 'var' section found in config file: %s", cfgFile)
+			}
+
+		}
 	}
 	if options.NewTemplatesDirectory != "" {
 		config.DefaultConfig.SetTemplatesDir(options.NewTemplatesDirectory)
diff --git a/integration_tests/fuzz/fuzz-body.yaml b/integration_tests/fuzz/fuzz-body.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..01a3006f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/integration_tests/fuzz/fuzz-body.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+id: fuzz-body
+
+info:
+  name: fuzzing error sqli payloads in http req body
+  author: pdteam
+  severity: info
+  description: |
+    This template attempts to find SQL injection vulnerabilities by fuzzing http body
+    It automatically handles and parses json,xml,multipart form and x-www-form-urlencoded data
+    and performs fuzzing on the value of every key
+
+http:
+  - pre-condition:
+      - type: dsl
+        dsl:
+          - method != "GET"
+          - method != "HEAD"
+        condition: and
+    
+    payloads:
+      injection:
+        - "'"
+        - "\""
+        - ";"
+    
+    fuzzing:
+      - part: body
+        type: postfix
+        mode: single
+        fuzz:
+          - '{{injection}}'
+  
+    stop-at-first-match: true
+    matchers:
+      - type: word
+        words:
+          - "unrecognized token:"
+          - "null"
diff --git a/pkg/input/formats/formats.go b/pkg/input/formats/formats.go
index a23ff5d06..acc6c31d4 100644
--- a/pkg/input/formats/formats.go
+++ b/pkg/input/formats/formats.go
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ type InputFormatOptions struct {
 	// this is used for text templating of variables based on carvel ytt
 	// Only available for Yaml formats
 	VarsTextTemplating bool
+	// VarsFilePaths is the path to the file containing variables
+	VarsFilePaths []string
 }
 
 // Format is an interface implemented by all input formats
diff --git a/pkg/input/formats/testdata/ginandjuice.ytt.yaml b/pkg/input/formats/testdata/ytt/ginandjuice.ytt.yaml
similarity index 71%
rename from pkg/input/formats/testdata/ginandjuice.ytt.yaml
rename to pkg/input/formats/testdata/ytt/ginandjuice.ytt.yaml
index f1889a67f..a43bca070 100644
--- a/pkg/input/formats/testdata/ginandjuice.ytt.yaml
+++ b/pkg/input/formats/testdata/ytt/ginandjuice.ytt.yaml
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 #@ load("@ytt:data", "data")
-#@ load("@ytt:assert", "assert")
+#@ load("@ytt:json", "json")
 
 #@ def get_value(key, default=""):
 #@   if hasattr(data.values, key):
-#@     value = getattr(data.values, key)
-#@     return str(value)
+#@     return str(getattr(data.values, key))
 #@   else:
 #@     return default
 #@   end
@@ -17,10 +16,10 @@ request:
   raw: |+
     POST /users/3 HTTP/1.1
     Host: ginandjuice.shop
-    Authorization: Bearer 3x4mpl3t0k3n
+    Authorization: Bearer (@= get_value("token") @)
     Accept-Encoding: gzip
     Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
     Connection: close
     User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 11_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36
 
-    foo=(@= get_value("foo") @)&bar=(@= get_value("bar") @)
\ No newline at end of file
+    foo=(@= get_value("foo") @)&bar=(@= get_value("bar") @)&debug=(@= get_value("debug", "false") @)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkg/input/formats/testdata/ytt/ytt-profile.yaml b/pkg/input/formats/testdata/ytt/ytt-profile.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2cad498bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/input/formats/testdata/ytt/ytt-profile.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+list: pkg/input/formats/testdata/ytt/ginandjuice.ytt.yaml
+input-mode: yaml
+templates: 
+  - integration_tests/fuzz/fuzz-body.yaml
+var:
+  - debug=true
+vars-text-templating: true
+var-file-paths:
+  - pkg/input/formats/testdata/ytt/ytt-vars.yaml
+dast: true 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkg/input/formats/testdata/ytt/ytt-vars.yaml b/pkg/input/formats/testdata/ytt/ytt-vars.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..be973bee8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/input/formats/testdata/ytt/ytt-vars.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+foo: tata 
+bar: foo
+token: TOKEN-BEARER
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkg/input/formats/yaml/multidoc.go b/pkg/input/formats/yaml/multidoc.go
index 679707672..1140d5509 100644
--- a/pkg/input/formats/yaml/multidoc.go
+++ b/pkg/input/formats/yaml/multidoc.go
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ func (j *YamlMultiDocFormat) Parse(input io.Reader, resultsCb formats.ParseReqRe
 		}
 		tpl := []string{string(data)}
 		dvs := mapToKeyValueSlice(j.opts.Variables)
-		finalInput, err = ytt(tpl, dvs)
+		finalInput, err = ytt(tpl, dvs, j.opts.VarsFilePaths)
 		if err != nil {
 			return errors.Wrap(err, "could not apply ytt templating")
 		}
diff --git a/pkg/input/formats/yaml/ytt.go b/pkg/input/formats/yaml/ytt.go
index c075119ca..3ccf5f6d2 100644
--- a/pkg/input/formats/yaml/ytt.go
+++ b/pkg/input/formats/yaml/ytt.go
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import (
 	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
 )
 
-func ytt(tpl, dvs []string) (io.Reader, error) {
+func ytt(tpl, dvs []string, varFiles []string) (io.Reader, error) {
 	// create and invoke ytt "template" command
 	templatingOptions := yttcmd.NewOptions()
 
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ func ytt(tpl, dvs []string) (io.Reader, error) {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
+	if len(varFiles) > 0 {
+		// Load vaarFiles into the templating options.
+		templatingOptions.DataValuesFlags.FromFiles = varFiles
+	}
+
 	// equivalent to `--data-value-yaml`
 	templatingOptions.DataValuesFlags.KVsFromYAML = dvs
 
diff --git a/pkg/input/provider/interface.go b/pkg/input/provider/interface.go
index 769af60fb..c98214dd3 100644
--- a/pkg/input/provider/interface.go
+++ b/pkg/input/provider/interface.go
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ func NewInputProvider(opts InputOptions) (InputProvider, error) {
 				SkipFormatValidation: opts.Options.SkipFormatValidation,
 				RequiredOnly:         opts.Options.FormatUseRequiredOnly,
 				VarsTextTemplating:   opts.Options.VarsTextTemplating,
+				VarsFilePaths:        opts.Options.VarsFilePaths,
 			},
 		})
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/types/types.go b/pkg/types/types.go
index 5b71225cb..47c434072 100644
--- a/pkg/types/types.go
+++ b/pkg/types/types.go
@@ -421,6 +421,8 @@ type Options struct {
 	SkipFormatValidation bool
 	// VarsTextTemplating is used to inject variables into yaml input files
 	VarsTextTemplating bool
+	// VarsFilePaths is  used to inject variables into yaml input files from a file
+	VarsFilePaths goflags.StringSlice
 	// PayloadConcurrency is the number of concurrent payloads to run per template
 	PayloadConcurrency int
 	// ProbeConcurrency is the number of concurrent http probes to run with httpx