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Security audit

ai-news-collectors

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed Chinese AI-news research helper that uses broad web searching, with no evidence of hidden execution, persistence, credential access, or destructive behavior.

Install this if you want a Chinese-language AI news briefing workflow that will perform many web searches and read external sources. Users who prefer another output language or fewer searches may need to adjust the skill instructions before use.

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
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • 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 (3)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

The trigger description uses broad, natural-language phrases like asking for 'today's AI news' or 'what's hot recently,' which can cause the skill to activate in many ordinary AI-related conversations without clear scoping. Over-broad activation increases the chance of unintended invocation, unnecessary web access, and response hijacking away from the user's actual intent.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

The skill mandates Chinese output regardless of the user's language preference, which can override user intent and reduce transparency or usability for non-Chinese-speaking users. While not a direct code-execution risk, forced language output is a control-boundary issue that can mislead users and interfere with safe, comprehensible responses.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

This markdown file presents all instructions and descriptions in Chinese only, including headings, annotations, and search guidance. Under the policy rule for language or locale constraints, forcing a single language without user opt-in can be a natural-language policy violation unless the regional limitation is explicitly justified.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.