Write My Blog

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a coherent blog publishing tool, but it gives agents high-impact publishing, deployment, and credential-handling power with weak safeguards.

Review this skill before installing. Use it only in a dedicated blog project, back up any existing .env.local first, upgrade the web framework, harden content sanitization and SVG handling, and require explicit approval before deleting posts, publishing, switching production themes, or deploying.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
Findings (8)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding
The trigger keywords include very common terms such as `write`, `post`, `article`, and `deploy`, which can cause the skill to activate in unrelated conversations. In a skill with file-writing, command execution, and deployment guidance, overbroad activation increases the chance of unintended destructive or external actions being proposed or taken in the wrong context.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
The documentation includes destructive and high-impact actions such as deleting posts, switching production themes, and deploying to Vercel or Cloudflare without requiring explicit user confirmation or warning about consequences. In an autonomous agent setting, omission of confirmation guidance can lead to accidental content loss, service changes, or unintended publication of data to public infrastructure.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Confidence
99% confidence
Finding
The lockfile explicitly records that the project is pinned to Next.js 14.2.21 and includes upstream metadata stating that this version has a known security vulnerability. Because this skill exposes blog creation, content management, and deployment functionality, a vulnerable web framework could directly affect server-side routes, rendering, middleware, or admin surfaces reachable by attackers.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding
In non-interactive mode, the script will overwrite an existing .env.local automatically, replacing prior configuration and secrets without any safeguard. In an agent/CI context this is risky because automation may silently destroy working credentials, rotate service endpoints unexpectedly, or replace production-like settings with attacker-controlled values from environment variables or flags.

Credential Access

High
Category
Privilege Escalation
Content
SKIP_ENV=false
  fi
elif [ -f "$ENV_FILE" ] && ! $INTERACTIVE; then
  echo "⚠️  .env.local already exists — overwriting (non-interactive mode)"
  SKIP_ENV=false
else
  SKIP_ENV=false
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding
.env.local

Credential Access

High
Category
Privilege Escalation
Content
ask REDIS_URL "Redis URL" "redis://localhost:6379"
  fi

  # ── Write .env.local ──
  cat > "$ENV_FILE" <<EOF
# ── Write My Blog — Generated $(date +%Y-%m-%d) ──
Confidence
87% confidence
Finding
.env.local

Credential Access

High
Category
Privilege Escalation
Content
sed -i "s|^SUPABASE_URL=.*|SUPABASE_URL=$SUPABASE_URL|" "$ENV_FILE"
          sed -i "s|^SUPABASE_SERVICE_KEY=.*|SUPABASE_SERVICE_KEY=$SUPABASE_KEY|" "$ENV_FILE"
        fi
        echo "✅ Switched to Supabase. .env.local updated."
        echo ""
        echo "🔨 Rebuilding..."
        cd "$PLATFORM_DIR"
Confidence
86% confidence
Finding
.env.local

Credential Access

High
Category
Privilege Escalation
Content
sed -i "s|^MONGODB_URI=.*|MONGODB_URI=$MONGODB_URI|" "$ENV_FILE"
          sed -i "s|^MONGODB_DB_NAME=.*|MONGODB_DB_NAME=$MONGODB_DB_NAME|" "$ENV_FILE"
        fi
        echo "✅ Switched to MongoDB Atlas. .env.local updated."
        echo ""
        echo "🔨 Rebuilding..."
        cd "$PLATFORM_DIR"
Confidence
86% confidence
Finding
.env.local

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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