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Content Refresh for Decaying Pages - SEOmatic

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed SEO content-refresh workflow that reads connected Search Console and site data and stages changes only for user approval.

Before installing, make sure you are comfortable granting SEOmatic access to Search Console and site-analysis data. Review staged tasks before approval, especially content pruning or any auto-executable change, because approved tasks may modify site content quickly.

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
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (1)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

The skill description includes broad trigger language such as 'which posts to update', 'content decay', 'old articles losing traffic', and 'content refresh plan', which are common SEO support phrases and may cause the skill to activate in conversations where the user did not explicitly intend to invoke this workflow. Unintended activation can lead to unnecessary access to connected Search Console and site-analysis tools, producing data exposure or actions that are out of scope for the user's immediate request.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.