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Security audit

academic-email-finder-kiran

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill does what it says: bulk-searches public academic email addresses and writes them into a spreadsheet, with privacy and overwrite risks users should manage.

Before installing or using it, confirm you have a legitimate basis to collect these email addresses, provide only the intended spreadsheet and columns, and prefer writing results to a copy rather than overwriting the original workbook.

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
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (2)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

The trigger phrases include broad terms like '邮箱搜索', 'email搜索', and '搜邮箱', which can match common user requests beyond the narrow academic-email use case. This can cause the skill to activate unexpectedly and perform bulk personal-data collection or file operations in contexts where the user did not intend this specific workflow.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill is designed to perform bulk external searches for individuals' email addresses and write results back into the source spreadsheet, including overwrite-save behavior shown later in the file. Without an explicit warning and confirmation step, users may unknowingly trigger mass personal-data collection and irreversible modification of the original file, creating privacy, compliance, and integrity risks.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.