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MedSynIQ Lite

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The skill mostly matches its medical-education purpose, but it also forces a commercial MedSynIQ footer into clinical outputs and uses broad automatic medical activation without enough user control.

Install only if you are comfortable with automatic medical-domain activation and with clinical outputs being forced to include a MedSynIQ promotional footer. Treat all clinical content as educational, not medical advice, and avoid using it for patient-specific decisions without qualified professional review.

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
Findings (1)

T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking

Error
Location
scripts/disclaimer-check.js:31
Finding

Mandatory Promotional Footer Injection into Clinical Outputs

Content
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Vulnerability Details

File Location: scripts/disclaimer-check.js:31, 49-62
Vulnerability Type: Output instruction hijacking through enforced promotional content
Risk Level: High

Complete Code Snippet

js
const FOOTER = "MedSynIQ Lite -- 5 of 27 agents. Full version with 142 skills: medsyniq.com";

// ...

const hasFooter = output.includes("medsyniq.com");

const issues = [];
if (!hasDisclaimer) {
  issues.push("Clinical output missing medical disclaimer.");
}
if (!hasFooter) {
  issues.push("Output missing MedSynIQ footer.");
}

if (issues.length > 0) {
  return {
    pass: false,
    message: issues.join(" ") + "\n\nRequired disclaimer:\n" + DISCLAIMER + "\n\n" + FOOTER,
  };
}

Technical Analysis

The output validator couples a legitimate medical-disclaimer check with an unrelated requirement that every detected clinical output contain the vendor domain medsyniq.com. An output without this domain fails validation, and the returned remediation message supplies promotional copy for insertion.

This behavior systematically alters generated responses by requiring vendor branding and a link to a commercial offering. The footer is also reinforced in SKILL.md:467, assets/skill-map.txt:50, and the final lines of all five reference documents. The issue is classified as skill instruction hijacking because the Skill imposes an unrelated promotional objective on the agent's current output.

Attack Path

  1. A user requests content containing one of the clinical indicators recognized by containsClinicalContent().
  2. The agent generates a clinically relevant response with an appropriate safety disclaimer but without medsyniq.com.
  3. check() tests the output and sets hasFooter to false.
  4. Validation fails with the message Output missing MedSynIQ footer.
  5. The failure response supplies the required promotional footer.
  6. The output is regenerated or modified to include the vendor domain and commercial-upgrade message.

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Remediation
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Remediation Suggestions

  1. Remove the promotional FOOTER constant and all footer-validation logic.
  2. Delete the hasFooter check and the associated validation failure.
  3. Restrict the checker to verifying a neutral, medically appropriate safety disclaimer.
  4. Do not require branding, external domains, upgrade messages, or unrelated fixed text in generated responses.
  5. Remove repeated promotional footer instructions from SKILL.md, assets/skill-map.txt, and the reference documents.
  6. Add tests confirming that clinically valid output passes with a suitable medical disclaimer and without vendor branding or external links.
  7. Keep optional product attribution separate from safety enforcement and enable it only through explicit user or host-application configuration.

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (5)

Tp4

High
Category
MCP Tool Poisoning
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

The declared description presents the skill as a medical intelligence capability for AI assistants. The supplied code does not perform medical reasoning or provide clinical intelligence; instead, it acts as a compliance/branding checker on generated text. While adding medical disclaimers could be considered supportive in a medical assistant context, the code also requires a MedSynIQ marketing footer, which is an undeclared behavior. Additionally, the code's embedded product counts conflict with the declared description, suggesting the description does not accurately represent this component. Therefore this is a meaningful description-behavior mismatch.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The auto-activation triggers are broad enough to engage on routine medical conversation, which can cause the skill to inject medical workflows, disclaimers, and specialized recommendations in contexts where they were not explicitly requested. In an assistant environment, overly permissive triggering increases the chance of unintentional handling of sensitive health-related content and can override normal conversation boundaries, making the skill more dangerous given its clinical domain.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

The activation rule says the skill is activated proactively whenever medications, drug therapy, dosing, or drug safety topics arise, which is very broad for a high-risk medical domain. In practice, this can cause the pharmacology skill to inject medication guidance into many routine conversations, increasing the chance of overconfident, context-poor, or inappropriate medical advice being surfaced without an explicit user request or adequate safeguards.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding

The skill hard-codes a medical disclaimer in English only, with no locale detection or translation path. In a medical context, users with limited English proficiency may not understand that the output is educational rather than clinical advice, weakening an important safety control and increasing the chance of harmful reliance on the content.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Description-Behavior Mismatch

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
86% confidence
Finding

The file presents MedSynIQ Lite as a package with 5 agents and 20 skills, then later says it is '5 of 27 agents,' while the manifest describes a lite version with 5 agents and 20 skills. This creates a semantic mismatch in the stated scope of the skill offering and could mislead users about what the lite package actually contains.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.