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“Render Mermaid diagrams as beautiful SVG, PNG, or ASCII art. Supports 6 chart types (flowchart, sequence, state, class, ER, XY chart), 16 built-in themes, 5 style presets, CSS-level customization, interactive preview, and batch rendering. Works in terminal, chat, or web environments.” description_zh: “Mermaid 图表美化渲染工具,支持流程图/序列图/状态图/类图/ER图/XY图表6种类型,16主题5预设,可导出SVG/PNG/ASCII” description_en: “Beautiful Mermaid diagram renderer (SVG/PNG/ASCII, 16 themes, 5 presets, interactive preview)”

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This Mermaid rendering skill is mostly purpose-aligned, but it forces previewing active local HTML and contains confirmed unsanitized HTML/SVG insertion paths that make untrusted diagram files risky.

Review before installing if you handle diagrams from other people. Use it only with trusted .mmd files, skip automatic previews when not needed, and avoid opening generated HTML from untrusted Mermaid input until the @icon and preview innerHTML paths are sanitized.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Skill Instruction HijackingAlters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
  • Insecure Skill Coding PracticesFinds exploitable flaws such as hardcoded secrets or command injection
  • 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
Findings (3)

T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking

Error
Location
SKILL.md:92
Finding

Agent Workflow Hijacking Through Self-Declared Highest-Priority Instructions

Content
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**AI 预览工作规则(最高优先级)**:任何涉及渲染 Mermaid 图表的请求,**无论用户是否已指定主题/预设**,都必须先调用 `preview_url` 打开预览工具,让用户在 preview.html 中直观确认效果后,再执行渲染命令。 > > **触发场景(包括但不限于)**: > - 用户询问主题/配色推荐 > - 用户已明确指定主题和预设(如"用 tokyo-night + glass 渲染")→ **仍需先打开 preview 让用户确认,不得跳过** > - 需要查看图表效果 > - 任何使用 skill 渲染图表的场景 > > **打开方式**(唯一合法方式): > - 工具:`preview_url` > - URL:`file://{__SKILL_DIR__}/assets/preview.html`(`__SKILL_DIR__` 为技能安装目录的绝对路径) ``` The same policy is reinforced elsewhere: ```markdown > ⚠️ **强制规则**:Step 1 不可跳过。即使用户已指定主题和预设,AI 也必须先打开 Playground 让用户在 preview.html 中确认效果,再执行 Step 2 渲染。唯一例外:用户明确说"跳过预览"。 ``` ```markdown > 当用户要求将**多张图表整合为报告/文档/展示页面**时,**必须使用 `scripts/rich-html.js`**,不要手动拼接 HTML。 ``` ### Technical Analysis The Skill declares its own workflow rule to have the “highest priority” and directs the Agent to invoke `preview_url` before ordinary rendering operations. Skill documentation must not claim precedence over system, developer, or user instructions. This is materially different from normal usage guidance. The instructions attempt to alter the Agent's decision hierarchy and mandate a tool call even when previewing is unrelated to the user's requested result. The forced preview is security-relevant because the preview and generated report files contain executable browser-side content and unsafe HTML insertion paths identified separately in this audit. The Skill does include an exception when a user explicitly requests that previewing be skipped. However, this does not remove the instruction-hijacking behavior because the default remains an asserted highest-priority tool invocation rather than an optional feature selected according to the user's request and the Agent's governing policies. ...[truncated 1406 chars]
Remediation
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T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices

Error
Location
scripts/rich-html.js:1227
Finding

Stored HTML Injection Through Unescaped Mermaid Icon Metadata

Content
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{ const idx = pair.indexOf(':'); if (idx < 0) return { label: pair.trim(), value: '' }; return { label: pair.slice(0, idx).trim(), value: pair.slice(idx + 1).trim() }; }); break; } } ``` The value is later inserted directly into generated HTML. Values beginning with `<` are intentionally treated as markup: ```js
${meta.icon && meta.icon.trim().startsWith('<') ? meta.icon : `${meta.icon}`}
``` The generated document is then written to disk: ```js const html = buildHtml(options, diagrams, colors, rawTheme, effectivePreset); const outputDir = path.dirname(path.resolve(options.output)); if (!fs.existsSync(outputDir)) { fs.mkdirSync(outputDir, { recursive: true }); } fs.writeFileSync(options.output, html, 'utf-8'); ``` ### Technical Analysis The generator treats `.mmd` files as data inputs but allows the `# @icon` metadata field to become raw HTML. No escaping, sanitization, or element/attribute allowlist is applied. The conditional check only tests whether the value begins with `<`. It does not establish that the value is a safe SVG icon. Consequently, arbitrary HTML elements, SVG el ...[truncated 2365 chars]
Remediation
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${escHtml(meta.icon || '')}`; ``` 4. If custom SVG is required, parse and sanitize it with a security-reviewed SVG sanitizer configured to: - Allow only required SVG elements and attributes. - Remove all `on*` event-handler attributes. - Remove `script`, `foreignObject`, animation elements, and embedded HTML. - Reject external `href`, `xlink:href`, CSS URLs, and data URLs unless explicitly required. - Remove inline styles or validate each CSS property and URL. 5. Apply context-aware HTML encoding to every metadata field, including the non-markup icon branch. 6. Add a restrictive Content Security Policy to generated reports, preferably disallowing inline scripts and event handlers. 7. Open generated reports in a sandboxed iframe without same-origin or privileged IDE access. 8. Add regression tests using payloads in `@icon`, including event attributes, closing-tag injection, SVG links, and `foreignObject`. ]]>

T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices

Warning
Location
assets/preview.html:1408
Finding

Unsafe DOM HTML Insertion in the Interactive Preview

Content
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渲染引擎加载失败,请刷新页面重试。'; return; } // 同步 body data-theme 属性,驱动 logo 颜色 CSS filter document.body.dataset.theme = isLightTheme(currentTheme) ? 'light' : 'dark'; try { const code = getCurrentCode(); const theme = getThemeConfig(); const svg = renderMermaidSVG(code, theme); previewFrame.innerHTML = svg; // 用 surface 作为预览外圈背景(节点外围环境色) previewFrame.style.backgroundColor = theme.surface || theme.bg || '#ffffff'; // 修复 SVG 尺寸:确保 width/height 是实际像素值,而非 100% 或空值 fixSVGDimensions(previewFrame.querySelector('svg')); // 注入样式预设(borderRadius / shadow / lineWidth 等) applyPresetStyles(); // 代码预览(展示用,不会被执行) const safeCode = code.replace(/\\/g, '\\\\').replace(/`/g, '\\`').replace(/\$\{/g, '\\${'); codePreview.textContent = `import { renderMermaidSVG, THEMES } from 'beautiful-mermaid';\n\nconst svg = renderMermaidSVG(\`${safeCode}\`, THEMES['${currentTheme}']);`; } catch (e) { previewFrame.innerHTML = `Error: ${e.message}`; } } ``` ### Technical Analysis Two values that can be influenced by untrusted diagram input reach `innerHTML`: 1. The complete SVG string returned by `renderMermaidSVG()`. 2. The exception message returned when rendering fails. No explicit sanitization occurs before either assignment. This makes the preview's security dependent on the current and all future versions of the rendering dependency correctly neutralizing every active SVG and HTML construct. It also means that a compromised or vulnerable rendering dependency would immediately become a DOM-execution path. The error branch is independently unsafe because `${e.message}` ...[truncated 2125 chars]
Remediation
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Vulnerability Patterns
  • Output HandlingUnvalidated Output Injection, Cross-Context Output, Unbounded Output
  • 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 (69)

Tp4

High
Category
MCP Tool Poisoning
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The description claims a broadly scoped Mermaid renderer producing SVG, PNG, or ASCII art for terminal/chat/web use. This code chunk specifically generates a rich HTML page embedding rendered SVG diagrams. It does support batch rendering, themes/presets, and interactive preview-like behavior (fullscreen/viewer UI), which partially matches. However, there is no PNG generation, no ASCII rendering, and no terminal/chat output path here. Additionally, the code adds substantial undeclared behavior: heuristic diagram-type inference, metadata extraction, analytical summary cards, deep flow/sequence/state analysis, and self-check panels. Those extras are not harmful, but the declared description materially overstates/changes the primary capability and output formats relative to this code chunk.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 152)May include surrounding context.

md
当用户需要将**多张 Mermaid 图表**整合为一个专业的展示页面时,使用 `scripts/rich-html.js`。

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 166)May include surrounding context.

md
当用户需要将**多张 Mermaid 图表**整合为一个专业的展示页面时,使用 `scripts/rich-html.js`。

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 183)May include surrounding context.

md
当用户需要将**多张 Mermaid 图表**整合为一个专业的展示页面时,使用 `scripts/rich-html.js`。

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 615)May include surrounding context.

md
当用户需要将**多张 Mermaid 图表**整合为一个专业的展示页面时,使用 `scripts/rich-html.js`。

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 619)May include surrounding context.

md
当用户需要将**多张 Mermaid 图表**整合为一个专业的展示页面时,使用 `scripts/rich-html.js`。

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 634)May include surrounding context.

md
当用户需要将**多张 Mermaid 图表**整合为一个专业的展示页面时,使用 `scripts/rich-html.js`。

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 646)May include surrounding context.

md
当用户需要将**多张 Mermaid 图表**整合为一个专业的展示页面时,使用 `scripts/rich-html.js`。

Unvalidated Output Injection

High
Category
Output Handling
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

The React example renders SVG returned from Mermaid using dangerouslySetInnerHTML, and the document itself acknowledges that SVG contains user-controlled text. If untrusted Mermaid input is rendered into SVG and then injected into the DOM without sanitization, an attacker may achieve XSS via malicious SVG or embedded markup, leading to script execution, token theft, or UI compromise in web contexts.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 304)May include surrounding context.

}, [code]);

if (error) return

text
{error.message}
; return <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: svg }} />; }

text

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 363)May include surrounding context.

md
node scripts/render.js diagram.mmd -o output.svg

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 366)May include surrounding context.

md
node scripts/render.js diagram.mmd -o output.svg

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 369)May include surrounding context.

md
node scripts/render.js diagram.mmd -o output.svg

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 372)May include surrounding context.

md
node scripts/render.js diagram.mmd -o output.svg

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 375)May include surrounding context.

md
node scripts/render.js diagram.mmd -o output.svg

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 378)May include surrounding context.

md
node scripts/render.js diagram.mmd -o output.svg

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 381)May include surrounding context.

md
node scripts/render.js diagram.mmd -o output.svg

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 384)May include surrounding context.

md
node scripts/render.js diagram.mmd -o output.svg

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 387)May include surrounding context.

md
node scripts/render.js diagram.mmd -o output.svg

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 424)May include surrounding context.

md
node scripts/render.js diagram.mmd -o output.svg

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 427)May include surrounding context.

md
node scripts/render.js diagram.mmd -o output.svg

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 430)May include surrounding context.

md
node scripts/render.js diagram.mmd -o output.svg

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 433)May include surrounding context.

md
node scripts/render.js diagram.mmd -o output.svg

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 436)May include surrounding context.

md
node scripts/render.js diagram.mmd -o output.svg

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 445)May include surrounding context.

md
node scripts/render.js diagram.mmd -o output.svg

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 446)May include surrounding context.

md
node scripts/render.js diagram.mmd -o output.svg

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.