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Security audit

AI Content Publisher

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is coherent for blog publishing, but it can immediately send drafts to external services and publish them publicly without a built-in confirmation or draft-only safeguard.

Install only if you want an agent to help publish to these specific platforms. Before using it, require the agent to show the exact title, body, tags, canonical URL, target account, and platform, and confirm whether it should create a draft or publish live.

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
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (3)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
89% confidence
Finding

The skill description is broad enough that an agent could invoke it for generic 'publish' or 'blog post' requests without clearly confirming the target platforms, workflow, or that the user intends live posting. Because this skill performs real publication actions, over-broad triggering increases the chance of unintended external posting rather than just local formatting assistance.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill instructs immediate submission of article content to third-party platforms using available credentials, but does not require an explicit warning that content will be transmitted externally and may be published live. In an agent setting, this can cause accidental disclosure of unpublished, sensitive, or incorrect content and trigger irreversible public actions.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

This command sends article content and metadata to an external API using authenticated credentials, which is a true external transmission path. In context, external posting is the purpose of the skill, but it remains dangerous because an agent could exfiltrate sensitive draft content or publish unintentionally if the action is triggered without explicit approval.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 46)May include surrounding context.

4. Publish to Dev.to (API)

bash
curl -X POST https://dev.to/api/articles \
  -H "api-key: $DEVTO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.