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Security audit

entertainment-discovery-research

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The skill provides scoped public entertainment research through Crawlora, with a minor discrepancy between its description and supported content.

Crawlora receives your research queries and API key, and requests may consume API credits. Use a dedicated key and avoid private information in searches. The endpoint catalog also supports public video-game research despite the narrower description. Review covered the bundled files; Crawlora's server-side behavior was not tested.

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
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
Findings (7)

Description-Behavior Mismatch

High
Category
MCP Tool Poisoning
Confidence
99% confidence
Finding

The declared scope is movies and TV, whereas the code explicitly authorizes video-game endpoints, creating a concrete scope mismatch. Otherwise, its fixed Crawlora API destination, API-key authentication, query handling, and temporary credential configuration support the declared functionality rather than constituting unrelated capabilities.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Skill declares no tool scope ('permissions' or 'allowed-tools') but code capabilities were detected: shell.

Medium
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
70% confidence
Finding

Without declared permissions the skill's intent is opaque and cannot be validated.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · scripts/crawlora.sh (reported line 3)May include surrounding context.

sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Crawlora REST helper — minimal, dependency-free (curl only).
# Calls https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1 with your Crawlora API key.
# Get a free key (2,000 credits/mo, no card) at https://crawlora.net?utm_source=github&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=crawlora-skills.
#
# Usage:

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · reference/endpoints.md (reported line 7)May include surrounding context.

md
Endpoints this skill uses, grouped by platform. Call them via `scripts/crawlora.sh` (see SKILL.md).

All paths are relative to the API base `https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1` and require the header `x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY`. Path params like `{id}` are substituted into the URL; `GET` params go in the query string; `POST` params go in a JSON body.

**99 endpoints across 5 platform group(s).**

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · scripts/crawlora.sh (reported line 20)May include surrounding context.

sh
esac
# Fixed, non-overridable: an env-configurable base URL would let anything that
# can set CRAWLORA_API_BASE redirect this key to an attacker-controlled host.
base="https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1"

method="GET"
args=()

The skill exposes Metacritic video-game detail and review endpoints despite its stated movie-and-TV research scope.

Low
Category
Excessive Agency
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

L561–L577 list dedicated capabilities for retrieving video-game metadata, critic reviews, and user reviews. The reference identifies these as endpoints the skill uses (L005), but standalone video-game research is outside the manifest's movie-and-TV purpose and is not a necessary implementation detail of that purpose. This file documents the capability; it does not establish that these endpoints are actually invoked.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

The route allowlist enables video-game research despite the skill's stated movie-and-TV scope.

Low
Category
Excessive Agency
Confidence
99% confidence
Finding

L148–L150 explicitly allow Metacritic game details, critic reviews, and user reviews. These routes are accepted for API requests, providing a video-game research capability that is not justified by the manifest's stated purpose of researching movies and TV titles.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.