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Opennews

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a coherent OpenNews API guide for financial and crypto news lookup, with disclosed external API calls and no hidden persistence or destructive behavior.

Install only if you are comfortable sending your market-news queries, company identifiers, wallet addresses entered for lookup, and OPENNEWS_TOKEN-authenticated requests to the 6551/OpenNews API. Authenticated strategy endpoints may reveal your saved strategy names and triggered-history results to the agent response, but the skill does not instruct modification or deletion.

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
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Findings (4)

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 · SKILL.md (reported line 64)May include surrounding context.

Fetch the full engine tree with all 6 categories and 85+ sources.

bash
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENNEWS_TOKEN" \
  "https://ai.6551.io/open/news_type"

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding

The instruction says queries should support both Chinese and English, which sets a language behavior expectation rather than offering language selection based on user preference. This can violate language/locale policy when the skill defaults to specific languages without explicit opt-in or a documented region-specific justification.

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 · SKILL.md (reported line 256)May include surrounding context.

Use a name only for discovery. An ambiguous_entity response is expected when multiple markets or issuers match.

bash
curl -s -X POST "https://ai.6551.io/open/finance-enhance/company-search" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENNEWS_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keyword":"Hynix","identifier_type":"company_name","market":"GLOBAL","result_scope":"issuer","limit":20,"auto_collect":false}'

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 · SKILL.md (reported line 412)May include surrounding context.

High-Impact News (score >= 80)

bash
curl -s -X POST "https://ai.6551.io/open/news_search" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENNEWS_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"score": 80, "limit": 50, "page": 1}'

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.