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Security audit

Shein Shopping

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a simple Shein shopping-advice skill with no code, credentials, persistence, or automatic purchasing behavior.

Before installing, understand that this skill provides shopping guidance only. It may encourage price tracking, review checks, coupon use, and related skill installation with confirmation, but the artifact does not perform purchases or access accounts by itself.

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
  • 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
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (2)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
84% confidence
Finding
The 'When to Use' section says the skill applies when a 'User wants to shop on Shein' and then lists broad assistance areas like product research and deal finding. This does not define concrete trigger phrases, boundaries, or exclusion conditions, making invocation scope somewhat ambiguous for a markdown skill description.

Autonomous Decision Making

Medium
Category
Excessive Agency
Content
- Trusting product photos without review photos → real item often differs significantly
- Ignoring measurements and ordering by letter size → Shein sizes run small
- Buying without checking fabric content → uncomfortable materials
- Missing coupon stacking → leaving 15-30% savings on table
- Rushing orders → missing flash sales that happen weekly
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.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.