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Email Design

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The skill is mostly email-design guidance, but its primary setup path asks users to execute a remote installer in their shell and recommends unpinned external skill installs.

Review the installer and related skill sources before running these commands. Prefer a separately downloaded, inspected, version-pinned, and checksum-verified installer, and avoid running the `npx skills add` examples unless you trust the current upstream packages and skills.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Remote Payload Retrieval and ExecutionFetches external code whose behavior can change after review
  • Insecure DependenciesIntroduces malicious components through unsafe dependency sources
  • 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
  • Embedded Malicious CodeShips malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
Findings (2)

T03 · Remote Payload Retrieval and Execution

Error
Location
SKILL.md:14
Finding

Remote Installer Is Downloaded and Executed Without Prior Verification

Content
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Remediation
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T08 · Insecure Dependencies

Warning
Location
SKILL.md:235
Finding

Unpinned npx Package and Remote Skill Dependencies Create Supply-Chain Risk

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Remediation
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Vulnerability Patterns
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
  • 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
Findings (6)

External Script Fetching

High
Category
Supply Chain
Confidence
99% confidence
Finding

This is a concrete external-script execution pattern: curl -fsSL https://cli.inference.sh | sh. It creates an immediate remote code execution path in the user's shell session, and the skill context makes it more dangerous because it is presented as the quick-start installation command, increasing the chance that users will run it without scrutiny.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 14)May include surrounding context.

Quick Start

bash
curl -fsSL https://cli.inference.sh | sh && infsh login

# Generate email header banner
infsh app run infsh/html-to-image --input '{

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding

The manifest description lists generic triggers such as "email template," "email marketing," and "email campaign" without clear activation boundaries or exclusion conditions. These phrases are broad enough to overlap with many general marketing-help requests, increasing the chance of unintended invocation.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

The skill instructs users to pipe a remote script directly into sh, which executes downloaded code without a prior inspection step. Even though the note claims checksum verification, users must trust the remote server and bootstrap script entirely; if that endpoint, CDN path, or TLS trust chain is compromised, arbitrary code execution on the user's machine can result.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Rp1

Medium
Category
MCP Rug Pull
Confidence
70% confidence
Finding

npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Rp1

Medium
Category
MCP Rug Pull
Confidence
70% confidence
Finding

npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Rp1

Medium
Category
MCP Rug Pull
Confidence
70% confidence
Finding

npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.