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Medical Research Literature Reader Pro

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a plain Markdown guide for structured medical literature analysis, with no executable code or hidden system-level behavior found.

Install only if you want an agent to help critique and organize scientific papers. Do not provide confidential unpublished research, patient-identifying clinical information, or restricted PDFs unless you are comfortable processing them in your agent environment, and verify any generated citation or related-study suggestions before relying on them.

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
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (3)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding

The skill's trigger language is very broad, covering many common paper-reading and research-assistance requests, which can cause over-activation outside a narrowly intended scope. That increases the chance the agent will route unrelated or sensitive requests into this skill, producing inappropriate handling, unexpected retrieval behavior, or bypassing a better-scoped skill.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
88% confidence
Finding

The skill accepts PDFs, identifiers, screenshots, and free-form inputs that may contain unpublished, copyrighted, or sensitive research/clinical material, but it provides no explicit notice about retrieval, external lookup, data handling, or privacy implications. Users may unknowingly submit sensitive content or trigger network-based retrieval without informed consent, creating confidentiality, compliance, and trust risks.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding

The phrase "Offer plugins when genuinely useful" does not define concrete trigger conditions or clear boundaries for when plugin suggestions should or should not appear. This ambiguity can lead to inconsistent or unintended invocation behavior, especially since the file also says to load the file when offering plugin suggestions.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.