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Security audit

Accounting Tool

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a financial automation skill that openly offers invoice, expense, payment-status, reporting, and QuickBooks actions, but it does not define user approval or scoping safeguards for those high-impact operations.

Install only if you are comfortable giving the agent access to financial workflows, and configure external controls so invoice sending, payment-status changes, expense creation, job-cost entries, and QuickBooks sync require explicit human approval and audit logging.

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
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • 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
94% confidence
Finding

The skill advertises that an AI agent can perform sensitive financial operations such as creating and sending invoices, logging expenses, marking invoices paid, and generating accounting reports, but it provides no warning about approval requirements, fraud risk, or the need for human verification. In an agentic setting, this omission can normalize autonomous high-impact actions and increase the chance of unauthorized billing, false bookkeeping entries, or financially harmful automation mistakes.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding

The QuickBooks sync feature implies transferring accounting records to a third-party system, but the skill does not disclose privacy, data handling, or cross-system synchronization risks. In practice, this can expose sensitive financial and customer data to unintended propagation, misconfiguration, or compliance issues if agents trigger syncs without understanding what data leaves the system.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.