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Marketing Psychology Expert

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a markdown-only marketing psychology guidance skill with some persuasion-risk content but no hidden code, data access, persistence, or autonomous actions.

Before installing, consider whether you are comfortable with a skill that gives practical persuasion and conversion advice. Use it only for truthful marketing: do not fabricate scarcity, reviews, authority claims, countdowns, or social proof, and review campaigns for consumer protection and advertising compliance.

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
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • 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 (3)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The trigger language is broad enough to activate on many ordinary marketing-related conversations, not just requests that need this specialized skill. Overly broad activation can cause unintended routing, unnecessary loading of persuasive-marketing guidance, and reduced user control over when this capability is invoked, though the content here is not inherently hostile.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

The document systematically instructs users to exploit cognitive biases such as scarcity, loss aversion, anchoring, sunk cost, and social proof to increase conversions, but it provides no ethical guardrails against deception, coercion, fake urgency, fabricated social proof, or manipulative framing. In a marketing-psychology skill, this omission is especially risky because the guidance is directly operational, includes scripts and page tactics, and can readily be applied in misleading or dark-pattern implementations that undermine informed consent and user trust.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Autonomous Decision Making

Medium
Category
Excessive Agency
Confidence
75% confidence
Finding

Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Content

Scanner excerpt · references/applications.md (reported line 267)May include surrounding context.

md
### Four Stages of Trust Building

**Stage 1: Reciprocity First (Reducing Guard)**
- Provide valuable content for free without asking for anything in return
- Strategy: Industry whitepapers, practical tools, free diagnostics
- KPI: Content downloads/usage count

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.