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Instagram Scraper

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This Instagram scraping skill is transparent about what it does, but it actively promotes large-scale scraping with anti-detection and residential proxy tactics that users should review carefully.

Install only if you are comfortable with a tool designed for automated Instagram scraping. Before use, confirm that your intended scraping complies with Instagram's terms, applicable privacy laws, and any consent requirements, and avoid using the proxy and stealth guidance for unauthorized bulk collection or evasion of platform limits.

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
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • 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 (2)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

The skill explicitly enables collection and export of Instagram profile data, engagement metrics, and thumbnails, but provides no safeguards or warnings around privacy, platform terms, consent, retention, or lawful use. In an agentic context, this omission increases the risk that users will deploy the scraper for bulk profiling or unauthorized data harvesting without understanding compliance and data-handling consequences.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding

The proxy section goes beyond neutral configuration and actively promotes anti-detection, IP rotation, stealth, fingerprinting, and long-running large-scale scraping to avoid bans and rate limits. That materially lowers barriers to evasive collection activity and can facilitate abusive automation or deliberate circumvention of platform protections, especially when presented as recommended operational practice.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.