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Hacker News Lead Finder

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill appears to be a simple Hacker News lead-search helper; the main consideration is that search terms are sent to Algolia's public HN API.

Before installing, understand that searches are sent to hn.algolia.com. Use general or sanitized keywords rather than secrets, customer names, private strategy terms, or other confidential business information.

A.I.G

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Skill Instruction HijackingAlters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
  • Agent Memory PoisoningWrites attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
  • Remote Payload Retrieval and ExecutionFetches external code whose behavior can change after review
  • Embedded Malicious CodeShips malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
  • Unauthorized Access and Privilege EscalationObtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Findings (1)

Missing User Warnings

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

The skill explicitly instructs users to send arbitrary search queries to the third-party Algolia HN API but does not warn that those queries leave the local environment and may contain sensitive business intent, customer names, or proprietary keywords. In a lead-generation context, users are especially likely to submit commercially sensitive searches, so the omission creates a real privacy and operational security risk even though the endpoint is public and no credentials are involved.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.