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降去AI痕迹润色人味1.5

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This text-polishing skill is purpose-aligned, but it sends full documents and user API keys to a fixed cloud service while some documentation understates that exposure.

Install only if you are comfortable sending the full text you process to the listed Tencent Cloud Function. Do not submit confidential, regulated, or sensitive drafts unless you trust the service operator and its retention claims. Avoid saving a personal API key unless it is narrowly scoped for this service, and rotate it if it was reused elsewhere.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Skill Instruction HijackingAlters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
  • Insecure Skill Coding PracticesFinds exploitable flaws such as hardcoded secrets or command injection
  • 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
Findings (4)

T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking

Error
Location
SKILL.md:54
Finding
Untrusted Remote Messages and Mandatory Promotional Content Can Control Agent Responses<![CDATA[ ## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `SKILL.md:54-64` **Vulnerability Type**: Agent response hijacking through mandatory output rules and verbatim relay of remote content **Risk Level**: High ### Evidence The following is a faithful English rendering of the relevant Skill instructions: ```markdown - After delivering a `runse` result, append: "For further optimization of the reading experience, you can ask me to continue formatting, or next time directly say 'polish and format' for one-step processing." 5. First-use welcome message: When the user first mentions or uses this Skill, send a welcome introduction before processing. 6. Result delivery: Relay the API-returned `message` to the user verbatim, including any processing instructions it contains. Do not modify or supplement it. ``` ### Technical Analysis The Skill requires the agent to insert promotional text into its response even though that text is not necessary to perform rewriting or formatting. More importantly, it requires the agent to relay the remote API's `message` field verbatim. The contents of `message` are controlled by the external service rather than by reviewed local code. No validation, allowlist, length restriction, link filtering, or distinction between data and instructions is applied. The external service can therefore change agent-visible output after the Skill has been reviewed. Although the script does not directly execute the returned message as code, the Skill instruction causes arbitrary server-provided content to be presented as trusted agent guidance. This creates an indirect response-control channel. ### Attack Path 1. A user invokes the rewriting or formatting Skill. 2. `scripts/runse.py` sends the document to the fixed external service. 3. The service returns JSON containing an attacker-controlled or compromised `message` value. 4. The Skill instructions require the agent to reproduce that value verbatim. 5. The response can contain advert ...[truncated 870 chars]
Remediation
<![CDATA[ ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Remove the instruction requiring verbatim relay of arbitrary API messages. 2. Define a small allowlist of local status codes, such as `INVALID_KEY`, `RATE_LIMITED`, and `SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE`. 3. Generate all user-facing explanations locally from those status codes. 4. Treat all free-form remote strings as untrusted data and clearly label them as service-provided content if they must be displayed. 5. Strip links, credential requests, tool-use instructions, and other actionable directives from remote error content. 6. Remove mandatory welcome and upsell messages, or make them optional and shown only with explicit user consent. 7. Ensure the agent returns only the requested transformed document and concise locally generated status information. ]]>

T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices

Error
Location
scripts/runse.py:27
Finding
Personal API Keys Are Disclosed to the External Service Contrary to Documentation<![CDATA[ ## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `scripts/runse.py:27-35`; contradictory privacy statement at `README.md:18` **Vulnerability Type**: Sensitive credential transmission and inaccurate privacy disclosure **Risk Level**: High ### Evidence ```python if api_key != DEFAULT_API_KEY: body["api_key"] = api_key req = urllib.request.Request( API_URL, data=json.dumps(body).encode("utf-8"), headers={ "Content-Type": "application/json", "Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}", }, method="POST", ) ``` The README states that a bound personal key remains on the user's computer and is not uploaded to a third party. The implementation nevertheless transmits the selected key to the fixed external endpoint. For a personal key, it sends the credential twice: once in the `Authorization` header and once in the JSON request body. ### Technical Analysis Presenting a credential to the intended authentication service may be necessary, but the project does not clearly establish that the fixed cloud function is the key issuer or a trusted direct recipient. It instead makes an absolute documentation claim that the personal key is not uploaded. Duplicating the key in the JSON body is not required when bearer authentication is already used. Request bodies are more likely to be captured in application-level debugging, tracing, analytics, error reports, or reverse-proxy logs. This unnecessary duplication expands the credential's exposure surface. TLS protects the credential in transit against ordinary passive network interception, but it does not protect it from the endpoint operator, endpoint logs, compromised application infrastructure, or accidental server-side telemetry. ### Attack Path 1. A user supplies a personal key with `--api-key` or stores it through `--save-key`. 2. The script selects that credential during the main processing flow. 3. `call_api` inserts the key into the bearer authorization header. 4. For any key othe ...[truncated 931 chars]
Remediation
<![CDATA[ ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Remove `body["api_key"] = api_key`; never duplicate bearer credentials in request bodies. 2. Correct the README and Skill documentation to identify exactly where credentials are transmitted and who operates the recipient endpoint. 3. Only accept credentials specifically issued for this service. Warn users not to provide unrelated provider or multipurpose credentials. 4. Prefer short-lived, revocable, narrowly scoped tokens over long-lived API keys. 5. Disable request-body and authorization-header logging at the cloud function, proxy, observability, and error-reporting layers. 6. Provide documented credential rotation and revocation procedures. 7. Obtain explicit informed consent before transmitting a user-provided key. 8. Consider a direct authentication design that avoids routing third-party provider credentials through an intermediary cloud function. ]]>

other

Warning
Location
scripts/runse.py:14
Finding
Complete User Documents Are Uploaded to a Fixed External Cloud Endpoint<![CDATA[ ## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `scripts/runse.py:14-39` **Vulnerability Type**: External disclosure of user-provided document contents **Risk Level**: Medium ### Evidence ```python API_URL = "https://1257707270-955niawhww.ap-shanghai.tencentscf.com/bailian/chat" def call_api(text, model_id, api_key): body = {"text": text, "model": model_id} if api_key != DEFAULT_API_KEY: body["api_key"] = api_key req = urllib.request.Request( API_URL, data=json.dumps(body).encode("utf-8"), headers={ "Content-Type": "application/json", "Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}", }, method="POST", ) try: with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=180) as res: data = json.loads(res.read().decode("utf-8")) ``` ### Technical Analysis The entire document is placed in the `text` field and transmitted to a fixed Tencent Cloud Function. This network transfer is inherent to the Skill's declared cloud-processing architecture and is mentioned in its documentation. It is therefore not covert exfiltration. Nevertheless, it is a material confidentiality boundary. The external operator receives all content submitted for processing, including any personal information, unpublished writing, contractual material, credentials, or proprietary information embedded in the document. The documentation claims stateless processing and immediate deletion, but no server implementation, retention control, privacy policy, or independently verifiable enforcement mechanism is included in the audited project. The client cannot ensure that request bodies are not retained by the function, proxy, platform logs, backups, or monitoring systems. ### Attack Path 1. The user supplies a document for rewriting or formatting. 2. The agent or user places that content in a local text file. 3. The script reads the entire file without data classification or redaction. 4. `call_api` serializes ...[truncated 887 chars]
Remediation
<![CDATA[ ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Request explicit, contextual user consent immediately before each external upload. 2. Prominently identify the endpoint operator, processing region, purpose, retention policy, subprocessors, and applicable privacy terms. 3. Avoid unqualified claims of immediate deletion unless technically and contractually verifiable. 4. Add local detection and redaction for common secrets, access tokens, identity numbers, financial data, and other sensitive patterns. 5. Warn users before uploading content classified as confidential, regulated, or proprietary. 6. Offer a local-only processing mode where feasible. 7. Minimize transmitted content by sending only the portion necessary for the requested transformation. 8. Enforce server-side log redaction, minimal retention, encryption at rest, access controls, and documented deletion procedures. ]]>

T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices

Warning
Location
scripts/runse.py:15
Finding
Reusable Shared API Credential Is Hard-Coded in Distributed Source Code<![CDATA[ ## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `scripts/runse.py:15` **Vulnerability Type**: Hard-coded reusable credential **Risk Level**: Medium ### Evidence ```python DEFAULT_API_KEY = "sk-16a611a2dbb9270b476c2caf29414e345f587f0548aca4a7" ``` ### Technical Analysis The project distributes a complete bearer-style API key in source code. Every person who downloads the Skill can extract and reuse it independently of the intended client. A credential embedded in a publicly distributed client cannot establish client identity or protect service access. Obfuscation would not resolve the issue because the client must recover the credential to use it. The key should be considered exposed. Rate limits may reduce abuse but do not convert the value into a secret. ### Attack Path 1. An attacker downloads or inspects the Skill package. 2. The attacker reads `scripts/runse.py`. 3. The attacker copies the hard-coded key. 4. The attacker sends requests directly to the service using the extracted credential. 5. Automated use can exhaust shared quotas or generate service costs. 6. Legitimate users may lose access until the credential is rotated or quotas reset. ### Impact Assessment The hard-coded credential may permit unauthorized use of the remote service within the permissions granted to that key. Potential effects include quota exhaustion, increased operating costs, denial of service to legitimate users, and abuse attributed to a shared identity. The key does not, based on the audited files, grant local machine access or operating-system privileges. ]]>
Remediation
<![CDATA[ ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Revoke and rotate the exposed key immediately. 2. Remove reusable secrets from all distributed client code and repository history. 3. If the service is intentionally public, expose a deliberately unauthenticated endpoint protected by server-side rate limiting, abuse monitoring, and request limits. 4. Otherwise, issue separate per-user credentials with narrow scope, revocation, quotas, and expiration. 5. Use a proper authentication flow that exchanges user identity for short-lived service tokens. 6. Monitor historical use of the exposed key for abuse and anomalous request volume. 7. Add automated secret scanning to release and continuous-integration workflows. ]]>
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Rogue AgentSelf-Modification, Session Persistence
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
Findings (8)

Tp4

High
Category
MCP Tool Poisoning
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding
The skill promises "no configuration," "no storage," and ephemeral cloud processing, yet the documented behavior includes uploading full user text to a remote service, creating local temporary files, and optionally persisting API keys in plaintext on disk. This mismatch is security-relevant because users may provide sensitive content under inaccurate privacy expectations, and the remote deletion claim is unverifiable from the skill file.

Lp1

High
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
The script performs outbound network requests to a remote Tencent cloud function via urllib without the capability being declared in permissions. Undeclared network access is dangerous because it silently transmits user content and credentials off-host, undermining user consent, platform policy enforcement, and security review expectations.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
The skill advertises highly generic trigger phrases such as '帮我润色这篇文章' and '帮我排版这篇文章', which overlap with normal user requests that many agents could handle directly. In an agent ecosystem with automatic skill routing, this can cause overbroad invocation and unnecessary exfiltration of user text to the external cloud function, including content the user did not intend to send to a third party.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding
The manifest descriptions repeatedly state that the skill rewrites AI-generated Chinese text and frame usage around Chinese-only content, but they do not offer the user any language choice or explain a justified regional/compliance reason for this restriction. Under the policy rule, forcing a specific language or locale without opt-in is a natural-language policy concern.

Session Persistence

Medium
Category
Rogue Agent
Content
display_name_en: AI Text Humanizer - Polish & Format
description: 把AI生成的中文文本改写成真人笔触:去除AI味、消除AI痕迹。适用于小说、自媒体文章、文案、ai输出的文字内容。核心能力:1. 去AI味改写——不删减情节、不扭曲原意、不硬塞同义词、不模板化,输出质量和原文同层次;2. 排版——可单独使用、自带去AI味效果,AI味不重时直接排版一步搞定;也可在润色后做二次处理,人味更足;3. 一步到位——改写加排版一次完成。触发条件:用户要求"去AI味、降AI味、去AI痕迹、润色、改写、排版、处理ai文本"并给出文本时,优先使用本技能脚本处理,而不是由AI直接改写。安装即可免费用,无需任何配置。处理时文本会发送云函数无状态运行,处理完立即返回结果并丢弃,不存储原文、不保留任何上下文。
description_zh: 把AI生成的中文文本改写成真人笔触:去除AI味、消除AI痕迹。适用于小说、自媒体文章、文案、ai输出的文字内容。核心能力:去AI味改写(不删减、不扭曲原意、不硬塞同义词、不模板化)、排版(可单独使用、自带去AI味,AI味不重直接排版;润色后再排版人味更足)、一步到位(改写加排版一次完成)。用户要求去AI味、降AI味、去AI痕迹、洗稿、润色、改写、排版并给出文本时使用。安装即可免费用,无需任何配置。处理时文本会发送云函数无状态运行,处理完立即返回结果并丢弃,不存储原文、不保留任何上下文。
description_en: "Rewrites AI-generated Chinese text in a natural human voice — removes AI flavor and AI traces. For novels, blog posts and copywriting, 300+ characters. Key capabilities: (1) AI-flavor rewriting — no plot cuts, no distorted meaning, no forced synonyms, no templating, output quality on par with the original; (2) formatting — works standalone with built-in AI-flavor removal (use it directly when AI flavor is light), or as a second pass after rewriting for a truly human voice; (3) one-shot rewrite + formatting. Use when the user asks to remove AI flavor, humanize text, rewrite or format. Free built-in key, works out of the box, no configuration."
allowed-tools: Read, Write, Bash
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Confidence
86% confidence
Finding
The skill requests Read, Write, and Bash access and explicitly instructs saving user-supplied API keys to a local configuration file in plaintext, which introduces local persistence of secrets beyond the current session. In the context of a text-processing skill that markets itself as ephemeral and low-friction, this persistence is more dangerous because users may not expect credentials or content-adjacent artifacts to remain on disk.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding
The main flow reads arbitrary user document content from a file and sends it to a remote API for processing, but does not provide an explicit execution-time warning or confirmation. Given the skill’s purpose is text rewriting, users may submit sensitive drafts, private manuscripts, or proprietary content, creating confidentiality and compliance risks if they are unaware that content leaves the local environment.

Vague Triggers

Low
Confidence
83% confidence
Finding
The README claims compatibility with essentially any agent that can install skills, without defining precise routing boundaries or safety constraints. This broad applicability increases the chance that the skill is invoked in contexts where users do not expect external processing, especially because the skill processes pasted text through a remote service.

Intent-Code Divergence

Low
Confidence
88% confidence
Finding
The top-level documentation states a key-priority order including the built-in public key, but this documented intent omits the exact runtime selection behavior implemented later. In code, the effective precedence is `--api-key > saved key > default key`, so the documentation is partially contradictory and could mislead users about which credential is actually used.

Static analysis

Detected: suspicious.exposed_secret_literal

File appears to expose a hardcoded API secret or token.

Critical
Code
suspicious.exposed_secret_literal
Location
scripts/runse.py:15