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Security audit

NEXUS Quick Translate

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a disclosed paid translation skill that sends user text to a remote NEXUS service, with no evidence of hidden local access, persistence, or deception.

Install only if you trust NEXUS with the text you translate and with the payment proof used for billing. Do not use it for secrets, credentials, regulated data, or confidential documents unless remote processing by this provider is acceptable.

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
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (7)

Skill Enumeration

Medium
Category
Agent Snooping
Confidence
80% confidence
Finding

Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.

Content

Scanner excerpt · README.md (reported line 16)May include surrounding context.

Or manually copy the SKILL.md to your OpenClaw skills directory:

bash
cp SKILL.md ~/.openclaw/skills/nexus-quick-translate/SKILL.md

Usage

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

The README states the skill is 'automatically invoked' when a matching task is detected, but it does not define trigger boundaries, approval requirements, or limits on what content may be sent. In the context of a remote translation service, this ambiguity can cause unintended activation and transmission of sensitive user text to an external endpoint.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The skill description does not warn users that submitted text is sent off-device to a third-party hosted endpoint for processing. This creates a privacy and data handling risk because users or calling agents may assume local processing and inadvertently disclose confidential content.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The documented behavior sends user-provided input to an external network service for translation, which is an actual data egress path. In a translation skill this is expected functionality, but it remains security-relevant because any sensitive text included in requests leaves the local trust boundary and may be exposed to remote logging, retention, or compromise.

Content

Scanner excerpt · README.md (reported line 29)May include surrounding context.

bash
# Step 1: Get the x402/MPP challenge
curl -X POST https://ai-service-hub-15.emergent.host/api/original-services/quick-translate \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"input": "your query here"}'
# Returns 402 + WWW-Authenticate: Payment header

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The skill defines its required input only as a generic string described as "input text or query," which is broad enough to encourage users or agents to submit arbitrary content without clear constraints. In this context, the skill forwards that content to a third-party remote service, so ambiguous scope increases the chance that sensitive, regulated, or unrelated data is sent off-platform unintentionally.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding

The skill instructs the agent to transmit user-supplied input and a payment proof token to an external host over the network. While this is expected functionality for a translation SaaS, it is still a real data-exfiltration surface because arbitrary submitted text and authentication/payment material leave the local trust boundary and are processed by an external provider.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 85)May include surrounding context.

API Call

bash
curl -X POST https://ai-service-hub-15.emergent.host/api/original-services/quick-translate \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-Payment-Proof: $NEXUS_PAYMENT_PROOF" \
  -d '{

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
81% confidence
Finding

The skill states that requests are processed server-side by specific LLM providers and only offers a passive opt-out by not installing the skill, rather than a per-request consent or provider choice. This creates a privacy and governance risk because user content may be routed to external model providers without granular control, especially if agents invoke the skill automatically.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.