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World Bank API

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a coherent World Bank data helper that makes disclosed read-only public API requests and does not show hidden persistence, credential access, or destructive behavior.

Install this if you want the agent to fetch public World Bank economic and development data. Be aware that country codes, indicator codes, date ranges, and search keywords may be sent to api.worldbank.org; avoid using it for confidential query terms if that is a concern.

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
  • MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (12)

Undeclared Tool Scope

Medium
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The skill clearly instructs the agent to perform outbound network access to the World Bank API, but the manifest shown does not declare any explicit tool scope such as allowed-tools or permissions. That mismatch weakens policy enforcement and reviewability because a user or platform cannot tell from the declaration that external network access is required.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The description says to use this skill for any macroeconomic statistics, country comparison, development indicator, or historical country data task, even when the World Bank is not mentioned. That broad trigger scope can cause the skill to activate for many general requests and unnecessarily send user queries or derived parameters to an external service.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 12)May include surrounding context.

md
import urllib.parse
import urllib.request

BASE = "https://api.worldbank.org/v2"

ALIASES = {
    "gdp": "NY.GDP.MKTP.CD",

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 38)May include surrounding context.

md
import urllib.parse
import urllib.request

BASE = "https://api.worldbank.org/v2"

ALIASES = {
    "gdp": "NY.GDP.MKTP.CD",

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 48)May include surrounding context.

md
import urllib.parse
import urllib.request

BASE = "https://api.worldbank.org/v2"

ALIASES = {
    "gdp": "NY.GDP.MKTP.CD",

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 127)May include surrounding context.

md
import urllib.parse
import urllib.request

BASE = "https://api.worldbank.org/v2"

ALIASES = {
    "gdp": "NY.GDP.MKTP.CD",

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 128)May include surrounding context.

md
import urllib.parse
import urllib.request

BASE = "https://api.worldbank.org/v2"

ALIASES = {
    "gdp": "NY.GDP.MKTP.CD",

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 138)May include surrounding context.

md
import urllib.parse
import urllib.request

BASE = "https://api.worldbank.org/v2"

ALIASES = {
    "gdp": "NY.GDP.MKTP.CD",

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 151)May include surrounding context.

md
import urllib.parse
import urllib.request

BASE = "https://api.worldbank.org/v2"

ALIASES = {
    "gdp": "NY.GDP.MKTP.CD",

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · references/endpoints.md (reported line 3)May include surrounding context.

md
import urllib.parse
import urllib.request

BASE = "https://api.worldbank.org/v2"

ALIASES = {
    "gdp": "NY.GDP.MKTP.CD",

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · references/indicators.md (reported line 8)May include surrounding context.

md
import urllib.parse
import urllib.request

BASE = "https://api.worldbank.org/v2"

ALIASES = {
    "gdp": "NY.GDP.MKTP.CD",

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · scripts/wb_data.py (reported line 30)May include surrounding context.

python
import urllib.parse
import urllib.request

BASE = "https://api.worldbank.org/v2"

ALIASES = {
    "gdp": "NY.GDP.MKTP.CD",

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.