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Taplio LinkedIn Niche Creator Finder

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The skill’s Taplio profile reads and searches fit its disclosed purpose of finding LinkedIn creators.

Requires a Taplio account and connector authorization. Your profile settings and niche keywords inform searches sent to Taplio, so avoid confidential search terms. Setup links include signup attribution, and estimated creator statistics should be verified.

A.I.G

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

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Output HandlingUnvalidated Output Injection, Cross-Context Output, Unbounded Output
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (3)

Behavior Manipulation

Medium
Category
Prompt Injection
Confidence
75% confidence
Finding

Subtle instructions detected that may alter agent decision-making or introduce hidden biases.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 63)May include surrounding context.

md
- Only recommend real creators you are confident about. If unsure, label them "candidate, verify".
- Avoid generic LinkedIn celebrities (Gary Vee, Justin Welsh by default) unless they truly fit the niche.
- Mix tier-1 (100K+) and tier-2 (5K-50K) creators. The smaller ones are often more useful to model since their tactics are closer to the user's reality.
- Never recommend the user's direct competitors as people to "model". Frame those as "watch closely".

## Requires the Taplio MCP

The workflow sends user-derived niche and profile keywords to Taplio searches without a privacy disclosure.

Medium
Category
Output Handling
Confidence
85% confidence
Finding

The workflow instructs the agent to build external search queries using the user's niche and profile settings, including topics and keywords. The connector requirement identifies the service but does not warn that user-derived information will be included in requests to Taplio.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Activation phrases are not explicitly limited to LinkedIn creator discovery.

Low
Category
Trigger Abuse
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

Triggers such as "find me people to learn from" and "I want to model my content on someone" also apply to general mentorship and other content platforms. Although the skill is LinkedIn-focused, its activation instructions do not require that context or exclude unrelated requests.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.