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Security audit

ai-trending-news

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill coherently fetches public AI news feeds and ranks them, with no evidence of hidden persistence, credential access, destructive behavior, or unrelated data handling.

Before installing, confirm you are comfortable with the skill contacting public AI news, research, and community endpoints from your environment. It does not appear to access private files or credentials, but network requests can reveal normal connection metadata to those sites.

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
  • MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (2)

Lp1

High
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The script performs outbound network access to many third-party endpoints but the finding indicates that this capability is not declared in the skill's permissions. In an agent environment, undeclared network access weakens consent and sandbox expectations, and could allow the skill to exfiltrate context or fetch untrusted content without the platform enforcing the intended guardrails.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
84% confidence
Finding

This code makes outbound HTTP requests to multiple external sources, which transmits system metadata such as the User-Agent and the caller's network identity, but there is no inline user-facing notice at the request site. The module docstring says it fetches public sources, but it does not explicitly warn about outbound network access or external data transmission.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.