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Security audit

xml-sitemap

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a markdown-only SEO sitemap guidance skill with some quality issues but no evidence of hidden, destructive, or data-exfiltrating behavior.

Installers should treat this as normal sitemap guidance, but review outputs for correctness before publishing, especially for sites over 50,000 URLs and multilingual sites where locale choices should come from the project configuration.

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
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • 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
87% confidence
Finding

The description says to use the skill whenever the user wants to create, audit, or optimize sitemap.xml, and also on broad phrases like "sitemap," "URL discovery," "single source of truth," and "URL config." Several of these terms are common in broader SEO, architecture, or content-management discussions, and the file does not provide exclusion conditions or negative examples to narrow when this skill should not activate.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Intent-Code Divergence

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

The skill states the sitemaps.org limit of 50,000 URLs/50MB, but then says to generate a single sitemap when URLs exceed 50,000. That contradiction can cause invalid sitemap generation for large sites, leading search engines to ignore or partially process the sitemap and reducing discoverability of pages.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
78% confidence
Finding

The guidance recommends splitting sitemaps by specific languages and repeatedly uses fixed locale examples like zh/en without indicating that locale selection should follow the user's site languages or preferences. Under the policy, language or locale constraints should be user-chosen or clearly justified; here the document presents them as default patterns rather than optional examples tied to user input.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.