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Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a straightforward Baidu web-search integration, with the main caution being careful handling of the Baidu API key and search queries sent to Baidu.

Install only if you are comfortable sending your search queries to Baidu's AI Search service and storing a Baidu API key for this skill. Treat the API key as a secret: keep the OpenClaw config private, do not commit or share it, and rotate the key if it may have been exposed.

A.I.G

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

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Rogue AgentSelf-Modification, Session Persistence
  • MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (8)

Undeclared Tool Scope

Medium
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding

The skill requires environment access to a secret API key and performs outbound network requests, but it does not declare any explicit tool scope such as permissions or allowed-tools. This creates a governance gap: a caller or platform may not clearly understand that the skill can access secrets and transmit data externally, increasing the risk of unintended data exposure or over-privileged execution.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The document instructs users to place a raw API key directly into a local JSON configuration file without any guidance on file permissions, secret storage, redaction, or avoiding accidental disclosure. This increases the risk of credential exposure through plaintext storage, backups, screenshots, shell history, or version control, especially because the file path is predictable and appears to be a general user config location.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Session Persistence

Medium
Category
Rogue Agent
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.

Content

Scanner excerpt · baidu-search-1.1.2/references/apikey-fetch.md (reported line 11)May include surrounding context.

md
Visit: **https://console.bce.baidu.com/ai-search/qianfan/ais/console/apiKey**

- Log in to your Baidu Cloud account
- Create an application or view existing API keys
- Copy your **API Key** (only API Key is needed)

### 2. Configure OpenClaw

Session Persistence

Medium
Category
Rogue Agent
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.

Content

Scanner excerpt · references/apikey-fetch.md (reported line 11)May include surrounding context.

md
Visit: **https://console.bce.baidu.com/ai-search/qianfan/ais/console/apiKey**

- Log in to your Baidu Cloud account
- Create an application or view existing API keys
- Copy your **API Key** (only API Key is needed)

### 2. Configure OpenClaw

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The guide explicitly instructs users to store a live API key in a plaintext JSON configuration file under their home directory without any warning about credential sensitivity, file permissions, or safer secret storage options. This increases the risk of accidental disclosure through backups, logs, screenshots, source control, or local multi-user access, and could allow unauthorized use of the Baidu API key.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
80% 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 · baidu-search-1.1.2/scripts/search.py (reported line 19)May include surrounding context.

python
}

    # 使用POST方法发送JSON数据
    response = requests.post(url, json=requestBody, headers=headers)
    response.raise_for_status()
    results = response.json()
    if "code" in results:

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
80% 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/search.py (reported line 19)May include surrounding context.

python
}

    # 使用POST方法发送JSON数据
    response = requests.post(url, json=requestBody, headers=headers)
    response.raise_for_status()
    results = response.json()
    if "code" in results:

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
88% confidence
Finding

This code posts the constructed request body, including the user-provided query content, to an external web service. Although the script logs parsed input and checks for an API key, it does not provide a clear user-facing warning or comment at the point of transmission that user data will be sent off-system.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.