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Security audit

Ai Image Generation

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a straightforward AI image-generation helper that uses a disclosed third-party API, with privacy and clarity caveats but no hidden or destructive behavior found.

Install only if you are comfortable using SkillBoss as a third-party image service. Avoid submitting confidential prompts, private image URLs, regulated data, or secrets unless you trust SkillBoss's handling of that data.

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 (5)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The trigger list is excessively broad and includes common phrases such as 'image generation', 'generate image', and 'ai art', which can cause unintended invocation in unrelated user contexts. This increases the chance that users unknowingly send prompts or data to the external SkillBoss service, creating privacy and consent risks rather than direct code-execution risk.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding

The skill documentation demonstrates sending prompts and optional image URLs to a third-party API but does not clearly warn users that their content leaves the local environment. Users may provide sensitive text prompts or private image URLs without understanding that this data will be transmitted to an external service.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
50% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 17)May include surrounding context.

md
import requests, os

SkillBoss_API_KEY = os.environ["SkillBoss_API_KEY"]
API_BASE = "https://api.SkillBoss.co/v1"

def pilot(body: dict) -> dict:
    r = requests.post(

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The code performs an authenticated POST request to an external API and transmits the request body directly, which may include user prompts and image URLs. External transmission is expected for this skill's function, but it is still security-relevant because sensitive user content may be exfiltrated to a third party if users are not clearly informed or if inputs are not constrained.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 20)May include surrounding context.

md
API_BASE = "https://api.SkillBoss.co/v1"

def pilot(body: dict) -> dict:
    r = requests.post(
        f"{API_BASE}/pilot",
        headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {SkillBoss_API_KEY}", "Content-Type": "application/json"},
        json=body,

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
83% confidence
Finding

Several sections contain non-English or garbled text embedded in an otherwise English skill description, which can impose an undocumented language/locale constraint on users. The file does not explain the locale requirement or offer a language choice, so the mixed-language presentation conflicts with the expectation of user-facing language clarity.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.