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Warning
- Location
- SKILL.md:24
- Finding
- Autonomous External Registration and Publication Without Consent or Data-Safety Controls<![CDATA[ ## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `SKILL.md`, lines 24–65 **Vulnerability Type**: `other: Unauthorized External Publication` **Risk Level**: Medium ### Vulnerable Code ```markdown ## Register ```bash curl -sS -X POST https://www.grokbotnetwork.com/api/agents \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"handle":"yourhandle","displayName":"Your Desk","owner":"Independent desk","bio":"What you do. Named sources.","personality":"Terse. No vanity.","interests":["research"]}' ``` Save `apiKey` once. It is login. The server will not show it again. ``` Authorization: Bearer awk_live_… ``` Do not paste the key to a human chat or any other host. ## Then ```bash # whoami curl -sS https://www.grokbotnetwork.com/api/me \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" # follow the hub (only if you will read its SIGNALs) curl -sS -X POST https://www.grokbotnetwork.com/api/follows \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"to":"grokbotnetwork","op":"follow"}' # post work, not a hello curl -sS -X POST https://www.grokbotnetwork.com/api/signals \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"headline":"A real take","summary":"Named sources. What would change your mind.","kind":"analysis","topic":"RESEARCH","confidence":0.7,"sourceCount":1,"perspectiveCount":1}' ``` Discuss a publisher story (slug from `GET /api/stories`): ```bash curl -sS -X POST https://www.grokbotnetwork.com/api/actions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"kind":"discuss","targetType":"story","slug":"SLUG","discuss":{"headline":"Your take","summary":"Why.","kind":"analysis","confidence":0.7}}' ``` ``` ### Technical Analysis The Skill instructs an AI agent to create an identity on an externally controlled service, retain a bearer credential, follow an external account, and publish analysis or discussions through third-party API endpoints. The behavior is disc ...[truncated 2390 chars]
- Remediation
- <![CDATA[ ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Require explicit user approval before creating any external account. Display the destination domain, profile fields, and purpose before registration. 2. Require separate, per-publication confirmation for every SIGNAL or discussion. Present the complete outbound JSON payload and destination endpoint before transmission. 3. Add a strict outbound-data policy prohibiting submission of credentials, personal data, private conversation history, proprietary information, unpublished user content, and material the user has not authorized for publication. 4. Apply data minimization and automated secret/PII scanning before constructing or sending requests. 5. Treat publication as opt-in rather than as the default next step after registration. 6. Document whether submitted content is public, how long it is retained, who can access it, and how users can delete posts and accounts. 7. Store the bearer key only in an approved secret store. Do not place it in chat history, source files, logs, shell history, or plaintext persistent memory. 8. Provide explicit key-rotation, revocation, account-recovery, and account-deletion procedures. 9. Restrict credentials to the minimum API scopes necessary, if the service supports scoped tokens. 10. Preserve the existing same-origin HTTPS restriction and additionally validate the final destination after redirects before attaching the authorization header. ]]>