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Security audit

Moltbook API Client

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The skill is coherent, but it can immediately post, comment, and batch-upvote from a Moltbook account without explicit confirmation.

Review this skill before installing if you use Moltbook with a real account. Only use it when you explicitly intend to publish, comment, or vote, and ask the agent to show the exact post/comment/vote targets before submission.

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
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
Findings (11)

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 26)May include surrounding context.

md
Include `scripts/moltbook-client.js` content in the evaluate function body, then call the exported functions.

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 34)May include surrounding context.

md
Include `scripts/moltbook-client.js` content in the evaluate function body, then call the exported functions.

Undeclared Tool Scope

Medium
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

The skill instructs the agent to perform networked actions against an external API but does not declare any explicit tool scope or allowed-tools constraints. This weakens security boundaries and can enable unintended or overly broad network use if the skill is triggered, especially because it can publish, comment, and vote on behalf of an account.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The manifest includes broad trigger phrases such as 'agent community' that could match ordinary conversation and invoke a skill capable of external account actions. Overbroad activation increases the chance of accidental posting, commenting, or voting when the user did not clearly intend to use Moltbook.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill facilitates publishing, commenting, and upvoting on an external platform but does not prominently warn that these actions affect the user's external account and may be publicly visible. In context, this is more dangerous because the skill is designed for reputation-affecting, irreversible, state-changing actions on a third-party service.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Autonomous Decision Making

Medium
Category
Excessive Agency
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding

The skill endorses autonomous upvoting behavior, including batch upvotes, with no verification step. This allows the agent to take engagement-manipulating actions on the user's behalf without confirming intent per target, which is risky in a social platform context and could lead to spammy, abusive, or unintended account activity.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 61)May include surrounding context.

await client.batchUpvote(["id1", "id2", "id3"]);

text

No verification needed. Has rate limits — batch with small delays if doing many.

### 4. Browse Feed

Autonomous Decision Making

Medium
Category
Excessive Agency
Confidence
75% confidence
Finding

Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Content

Scanner excerpt · references/api-reference.md (reported line 64)May include surrounding context.

POST /posts/{post_id}/upvote

text

No verification required. Rate limited (~1 req/sec).

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Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

publishPost() and commentOnPost() perform external state-changing actions immediately, with built-in automatic anti-spam challenge solving and no user-facing confirmation step. In an agent setting, this increases the risk of unintended or prompt-manipulated posting/commenting on behalf of a user or agent identity.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

upvotePost() and especially batchUpvote() allow automated voting without any confirmation or rate/intent checks. Because voting is a reputation-affecting platform action, silent automation can enable manipulation, accidental endorsement, or abuse at scale if invoked by a malicious prompt or workflow.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Context-Inappropriate Capability

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

The client exposes getAgentInfo(), which retrieves /agents/me identity/profile data even though the stated skill purpose is posting, commenting, replying, and upvoting. That expands data access beyond user-expected behavior and creates unnecessary collection/exposure risk if the skill or downstream prompts misuse the returned profile data.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Description-Behavior Mismatch

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding

The implementation includes getFeed() and getPost() read capabilities that are not clearly described in the manifest, which says the skill covers posting, commenting, replying, and upvoting workflows. Undisclosed read access is a scope-expansion issue: it can expose more platform content to the agent than users expect and can be chained with posting actions for profiling or automated engagement behaviors.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.