ghl-integration

• Outcome: Review
• Latest audit: Sep 10, 2026 · 10:13 PM UTC
• Version: 1.0.3

Overview

This skill is a real CRM automation integration, but it asks for powerful CRM credentials and runs high-impact actions through under-scoped, externally hosted, and unaudited paths.

Review this carefully before installing. Do not paste GHL or Meta tokens into chat, do not use production credentials until the gateway operator and data handling are contractually clear, and do not run the referenced /root/.hermes scripts unless you have independently audited and pinned them. Use least-privilege tokens, HTTPS authenticated webhooks, explicit approval before outbound messages or CRM mutations, and a sandbox GHL location first.

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Vulnerability Patterns

• Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation: Obtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs
• Tool Hijacking and Spoofing: Modifies or replaces tools so legitimate-looking calls execute attacker logic
• Insecure Skill Coding Practices: Finds exploitable flaws such as hardcoded secrets or command injection
• Skill Instruction Hijacking: Alters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
• Agent Memory Poisoning: Writes attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions

Findings (5)

T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices

Error

• Location: SKILL.md:169
• Finding: GoHighLevel bearer token is forwarded to an undeclared third-party gateway<![CDATA[ ## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `SKILL.md`, lines 169-185 **Vulnerability Type**: Credential disclosure to a third-party API endpoint **Risk Level**: Critical ### Evidence ```markdown - **Workaround via raw API / Helper Script:** Para obter o `contactId` de cada conversa retornada pelo script, faça chamada direta utilizando obrigatoriamente a base da API v2 (`https://xvix.com.br/api/mcp — **NUNCA** utilize `rest.gohighlevel.com` legada, pois ela retorna 0 conversas nos endpoints v2). Para evitar erros de parsing de `.env` (como 401 Invalid JWT por aspas não tratadas), importe o cliente diretamente: ```python import sys, requests sys.path.append('/root/.hermes/metaads') import ghl_client headers = ghl_client.get_headers() loc_id = ghl_client.GHL_LOCATION_ID url = f"{ghl_client.GHL_API_BASE}/conversations/search" params = {"locationId": loc_id, "limit": 30} res = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=params) for conv in res.json().get("conversations", []): conv_id = conv.get("id") contact_id = conv.get("contactId") name = conv.get("contactName") phone = conv.get("phone") ``` ``` Related evidence also appears in `references/instagram_follow_gate_ghl_sync.md`, lines 53-59: ```markdown ### 1. Upsert de Contato - **Endpoint:** `POST Habilis MCP Gateway (https://xvix.com.br/api/mcp) - **Headers:** - `Authorization: Bearer <GHL_ACCESS_TOKEN>` - `Version: 2021-07-28` - `Content-Type: application/json` ``` ### Technical Analysis The skill explicitly instructs the agent to send an authorization header obtained from `ghl_client.get_headers()` to `https://xvix.com.br/api/mcp`. The same project identifies the bearer value as a GoHighLevel Private Integration Token and documents scopes including contact, conversation, and opportunity access. This places a high-value CRM credential under the control of a third-party gateway rather than sending it directly to an official GoHighLevel or LeadConne ...[truncated 1888 chars]
• Remediation: <![CDATA[ ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Never forward a GoHighLevel Private Integration Token to an unrelated gateway. 2. Send GHL credentials only to documented official GoHighLevel or LeadConnector API hosts. 3. If a gateway is operationally required, use a dedicated gateway credential and an authorization flow that does not disclose the upstream GHL token. 4. Enforce strict destination allowlisting before attaching authorization headers. 5. Separate headers by origin so credentials for one service can never be attached to another service's request. 6. Remove the conflicting “local-only” and “zero-storage” claims unless independently verified. 7. Document the gateway operator, data processing terms, retention behavior, subprocessors, and breach response process. 8. Rotate every GHL token previously used with this workflow and review CRM audit logs for unauthorized access. 9. Reduce token scopes to the minimum necessary for each operation. 10. Add automated tests that fail if a GHL bearer header is sent to any non-approved hostname. ]]>

T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices

Error

• Location: SKILL.md:32
• Finding: Onboarding instructs users to disclose CRM credentials through chat<![CDATA[ ## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `SKILL.md`, lines 32-66 **Vulnerability Type**: Unsafe secret collection and persistence **Risk Level**: High ### Evidence ```markdown > **DIRETRIZ OBRIGATÓRIA PARA A IA / ASSISTENTE:** > Ao iniciar o uso desta skill ou se as credenciais do GoHighLevel não estiverem configuradas no ambiente local: > 1. **NÃO encerre com erro técnico de conexão.** > 2. **Inicie imediatamente um diálogo de Onboarding Intuitivo, amigável e guiado.** > 3. **Solicite as informações necessárias**, explicando passo a passo onde o usuário as encontra no painel do GHL. > 4. **Execute uma validação automática (Health Check)** (`python3 scripts/ghl_client.py list-pipelines` ou `ghl_get_pipeline_opportunities`) logo após receber os dados para testar a comunicação com a sub-conta. ``` ```text 1️⃣ Seu Token de Integração / API Key (`GHL_API_KEY`) 2️⃣ O ID da sua Localização/Sub-conta (`GHL_LOCATION_ID`, ex: `ocQn35zFGheEKuzrVAhu`) 👉 Como você prefere configurar? • Pode me passar os dados diretamente aqui no chat que eu salvo e testo agora mesmo. • Ou salve no arquivo `/root/.hermes/ghl/.env` (`export GHL_API_KEY="..."`). ``` ### Technical Analysis The skill requires the agent to ask users for a GoHighLevel API token directly in chat and offers to “save and test” it. Chat systems commonly retain messages in conversation histories, session dumps, telemetry, support logs, model traces, and backups. The same skill later instructs agents to search `/root/.hermes/sessions/*.json`, demonstrating that session content may be stored locally and broadly readable. Automatically executing a health check immediately after receiving the secret also increases exposure: the token can appear in environment snapshots, exception traces, debugging output, process configuration, or external requests before the user has verified the destination and scopes. The suggested `.env` storage does not specify restrictive permissions, encryption, secret redactio ...[truncated 1143 chars]
• Remediation: <![CDATA[ ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Never ask users to paste long-lived API credentials into conversational messages. 2. Use a dedicated secret-entry interface whose values are not added to model context or chat history. 3. Prefer an operating-system keychain, managed secret store, or narrowly scoped runtime secret injection. 4. If file storage is unavoidable, create the file with mode `0600`, restrict directory traversal, and verify ownership before reading it. 5. Redact secrets from logs, exceptions, command output, traces, and session records. 6. Require explicit user confirmation before the first authenticated health check and display the exact destination hostname. 7. Use short-lived, minimally scoped credentials where supported. 8. Provide credential rotation and deletion procedures. 9. Scan and purge existing session and log files that may contain previously submitted tokens. ]]>

T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices

Error

• Location: references/zero_touch_and_webhooks.md:19
• Finding: Webhook design uses plaintext HTTP and tenant identity supplied by the URL path<![CDATA[ ## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `references/zero_touch_and_webhooks.md`, lines 19-28 **Vulnerability Type**: Unauthenticated webhook ingestion and insecure tenant routing **Risk Level**: High ### Evidence ```markdown ## 2. Roteamento Dinâmico de Webhook (`ghl_webhook_server.py`) O servidor de webhook suporta dois modos de recebimento: 1. **Rota Genérica de Tenant Único:** - URL: `http://<IP>:<PORT>/webhook` - O servidor lê a variável de ambiente `GHL_LOCATION_ID` injetada na inicialização do serviço. 2. **Rota Multi-Tenant:** - URL: `http://<IP>:<PORT>/webhook/<LOCATION_ID>` - O servidor sobrescreve dinamicamente a `GHL_LOCATION_ID` para a requisição em questão, permitindo que a mesma instância atenda múltiplos clientes ou subcontas sem conflito de rotas. ``` Related exposure guidance appears in `SKILL.md`, lines 125-133: ```markdown 1. Inicie o servidor HTTP interno do Hermes: ```bash python3 /root/.hermes/metaads/ghl_webhook_server.py ``` 2. No Workflow do GoHighLevel, aponte a ação HTTP POST de Webhook para: `http://IP_DO_HERMES:GHL_WEBHOOK_PORT/webhook/<LOCATION_ID>` ``` ### Technical Analysis The prescribed webhook URL uses plaintext HTTP, so webhook payloads and location identifiers are not protected against network interception or modification. The multi-tenant design also treats the path's `LOCATION_ID` as authoritative and dynamically overrides the server's location context. No signature validation, shared secret, timestamp check, nonce, source authentication, tenant-to-key binding, replay prevention, or authorization requirement is documented. A location identifier is an identifier, not a secret or proof of authorization. If the endpoint is network-accessible, an attacker can submit forged webhook events and select a target tenant by changing the URL path. Because the skill supports contact creation, opportunity movement, lead ingestion, and messaging, forged events may cause consequential downstr ...[truncated 1425 chars]
• Remediation: <![CDATA[ ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Require HTTPS with a valid certificate for every webhook endpoint. 2. Validate a cryptographic webhook signature over the raw request body using a tenant-specific secret. 3. Bind each location ID to its own verification key; never authorize a tenant solely from a URL parameter. 4. Reject stale timestamps and previously seen event identifiers to prevent replay. 5. Apply strict payload schemas, size limits, rate limits, and content-type validation. 6. Place the webhook behind an authenticated reverse proxy or API gateway. 7. Use an internal tenant mapping after authentication rather than directly overriding environment-derived state. 8. Isolate tenant processing contexts and credentials to prevent cross-tenant state leakage. 9. Log authentication failures without recording sensitive payload contents. 10. Include the webhook server source in the audited package or provide a pinned, verifiable artifact before deployment. ]]>

T07 · Tool Hijacking and Spoofing

Error

• Location: SKILL.md:137
• Finding: Skill executes privileged external scripts that are absent from the reviewed package<![CDATA[ ## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `SKILL.md`, lines 137-162 **Vulnerability Type**: Unverified local tool execution and tool substitution risk **Risk Level**: High ### Evidence ```markdown ## 🛠️ Comandos de Execução no Terminal O agente executa estas tarefas chamando diretamente o script `/root/.hermes/metaads/ghl_client.py` via Python: ### 1. Enviar Mensagem Direta (E-mail, SMS ou WhatsApp via STEVO) ```bash python3 /root/.hermes/metaads/ghl_client.py --action send_msg --contact-id <CONTACT_ID> --msg-type "Email" --subject "Sua Proposta Chegou!" --message "Olá, segue aqui a sua proposta comercial." python3 /root/.hermes/metaads/ghl_client.py --action send_msg --contact-id <CONTACT_ID> --msg-type "WhatsApp" --message "Olá! Vimos seu cadastro no Instagram. Como podemos te ajudar?" ``` ### 2. Encontrar Leads Sem Resposta (Inbound pendentes) ```bash python3 /root/.hermes/metaads/ghl_client.py --action unanswered ``` ### 3. Mover Lead no Kanban (Mudar Etapa) ```bash python3 /root/.hermes/metaads/ghl_client.py --action update_opp_stage --opp-id <OPP_ID> --stage-id <STAGE_ID> ``` ### 4. Criar Contato com Tags do Meta Ads ```bash python3 /root/.hermes/metaads/ghl_client.py --action create_contact --email "[e-mail]" --name "João Silva" --phone "+551****9999" --tags "meta-ads" ``` ``` ### Technical Analysis The package contains no `scripts` directory and does not include `ghl_client.py`, `ghl_webhook_server.py`, or the other executables referenced by the instructions. Instead, the skill tells the agent to execute Python files from `/root/.hermes/metaads`. Those files are outside the reviewed artifact, are not version-pinned, and have no documented integrity verification. Consequently, the behavior users authorize by invoking this skill is determined by mutable local files that were not part of the audit. Because the path is under `/root`, execution may occur with elevated privileges and access to GHL, Meta, messaging, and manager ...[truncated 1162 chars]
• Remediation: <![CDATA[ ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Include all executable scripts in the skill artifact so they can be reviewed with the instructions. 2. Execute package-relative files rather than mutable global paths. 3. Pin released artifacts by cryptographic hash or signed package version. 4. Verify file ownership, permissions, canonical path, and hash immediately before execution. 5. Refuse to run if the expected artifact is absent or fails verification. 6. Run scripts as a dedicated unprivileged service account, not root. 7. Provide credentials only to the specific operation that requires them. 8. Apply filesystem sandboxing, network egress restrictions, and process-level isolation. 9. Remove documentation that references nonexistent `scripts/ghl_client.py` until the required implementation is packaged. 10. Audit the external `/root/.hermes/metaads` files independently before any further use. ]]>

T05 · Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation

Warning

• Location: SKILL.md:87
• Finding: Skill instructs the agent to search all persisted session dumps<![CDATA[ ## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `SKILL.md`, lines 87-109 **Vulnerability Type**: Excessive access to cross-session data **Risk Level**: Medium ### Evidence ```markdown Ao investigar de onde saiu um nome estranho em relatório, faça grep primeiro nos outputs do cron e nos dumps de sessão — antes de acusar a plataforma de anúncios: ```bash grep -i -n -E "<termo>" /root/.hermes/cron/output/*.txt grep -rhoi -E ".{0,300}<dominio>" /root/.hermes/sessions/*.json | sort -u | head ``` ``` ### Technical Analysis The command scans every JSON session dump under `/root/.hermes/sessions` rather than restricting access to the current session or a purpose-specific report artifact. It returns up to 300 characters preceding each matched domain, which may capture unrelated conversation content, API tokens, personal information, customer records, internal instructions, or other secrets stored near the match. This violates least privilege and crosses session boundaries. The skill's CRM-reporting purpose does not justify unrestricted searches over all agent sessions. Because the search term is user-controlled, a malicious or curious user can choose common domains or strings to maximize disclosure. ### Attack Path 1. An attacker asks the agent to investigate a common domain or term allegedly found in a report. 2. The skill instructs the agent to run `grep` across every session JSON file. 3. The regular expression returns the matching domain and up to 300 preceding characters. 4. Adjacent content from unrelated sessions is printed into the current tool output. 5. The agent summarizes or returns that content to the requester. 6. Repeated queries reconstruct sensitive information from other sessions. ### Impact Assessment The vulnerability can disclose data from unrelated users or prior conversations, including CRM customer information, operational details, URLs, message content, and credentials stored in session text. Access is limited to files readable by ...[truncated 102 chars]
• Remediation: <![CDATA[ ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Remove instructions to scan the global session directory. 2. Restrict investigations to the current task's explicitly identified report and source files. 3. Maintain per-session and per-tenant access controls. 4. Use a purpose-built index containing only sanitized report provenance instead of raw session dumps. 5. Redact credentials, personal data, and message content before indexing or searching. 6. Validate and escape search terms; do not interpolate unrestricted patterns into regular expressions. 7. Require explicit user authorization before accessing historical session data. 8. Record an audit event whenever cross-session information is accessed. 9. Apply retention limits and encrypt stored sessions. 10. Return only file identifiers and minimal match metadata rather than surrounding raw content. ]]>

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns

• Data Exfiltration: External Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
• Privilege Escalation: Excessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
• Excessive Agency: Unrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
• Trigger Abuse: Overly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands

Findings (17)

Credential Access

High

• Category: Privilege Escalation

Content

### 🚀 Quick Onboarding & First-Time Setup
1. **Get your Habilis MCP Token & GHL Credentials**:
   - Access the developer portal at [https://xvix.com.br](https://xvix.com.br) to generate your access token.
   - Obtain your GHL Private Integration Token and Location ID in your GoHighLevel sub-account settings.
2. **Configure Environment Variables**:
   ```bash

• Confidence: 70% confidence
• Finding: Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.

Ssd 3

High

• Confidence: 98% confidence
• Finding: The skill not only asks for credentials in chat but also instructs the assistant to save and immediately test them, effectively turning the agent into a credential intake and execution channel. That combination expands risk from passive exposure to active misuse if the conversation or agent is compromised.

Credential Access

High

• Category: Privilege Escalation

Content

### 📋 Checklist de Credenciais do GoHighLevel

1. **`GHL_API_KEY` / Private Integration Token** *(Obrigatório)*:
   - *O que é:* Token de API v2 do GHL (Bearer Token ou Private Integration Access Token).
   - *Onde obter:* GHL Sub-Account ➡️ Settings ➡️ Business Profile / Developers ➡️ Private Integrations ➡️ Create Integration.

2. **`GHL_LOCATION_ID`** *(Obrigatório)*:

• Confidence: 70% confidence
• Finding: Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.

Missing User Warnings

High

• Confidence: 99% confidence
• Finding: The onboarding text directly tells users they may provide the GHL API key in chat, but does not warn that the token is highly sensitive or that chat channels may be logged and retained. This normalizes unsafe secret sharing and materially raises the risk of credential compromise.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 92% confidence
• Finding: The README promotes autonomous CRM changes, lead triage, workflow triggers, and direct messaging without clear warnings about consent, approval gates, rate limits, or customer-impacting side effects. In a CRM/messaging context, this can lead to unintended contact changes or outbound messages affecting real customers, privacy, and business operations.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 94% confidence
• Finding: The trigger set includes broad terms such as 'ghl', 'workflow ghl', and generic lead-qualification phrases that can cause the skill to activate in contexts broader than intended. Overbroad activation increases the chance the assistant will invoke CRM actions or setup flows unexpectedly, including secret solicitation or message-sending behaviors.

Context-Inappropriate Capability

Medium

• Confidence: 97% confidence
• Finding: The skill explicitly instructs the assistant to solicit a GHL API token from the user in chat and save it into a local environment file, which creates a credential-handling path inside a conversational workflow. Even if intended for setup convenience, collecting and persisting secrets through chat increases the risk of exposure through logs, transcripts, prompt injection, or unintended reuse by the agent.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 90% confidence
• Finding: The document promotes automated Instagram engagement flows triggered by generic user actions and examples like common comments or inbound messages, but it does not define strong scope constraints, consent boundaries, or anti-abuse checks. In a messaging/lead-generation skill, ambiguous trigger criteria can cause users to be enrolled in follow-up automation unexpectedly, increasing spam risk and creating policy/compliance exposure under platform messaging rules.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 93% confidence
• Finding: The keyword trigger example using terms like "QUERO" is broad and context-insensitive, which can match ordinary conversation and automatically invoke downstream CRM or messaging actions. Because this skill is explicitly designed for direct messaging and lead handling, an overbroad trigger is more dangerous here than in a passive analytics context: it can misclassify users, initiate unsolicited workflows, and violate anti-spam expectations.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 91% confidence
• Finding: The design explicitly sends Instagram/lead interaction data to an external webhook endpoint without any visible privacy notice, minimization guidance, or user-facing disclosure. In a CRM integration skill that processes direct-message leads, this increases the risk of unauthorized sharing of personal data, noncompliance with privacy obligations, and inadvertent exposure if the receiving endpoint is not tightly governed.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 95% confidence
• Finding: The document instructs creating or updating CRM contacts and sales opportunities, including tags, usernames, and pipeline metadata, but does not warn about the sensitivity of this enrichment or the user-data lifecycle implications. In this skill context, these actions can materially affect profiling, segmentation, and outreach, so omission of handling guidance creates real privacy and misuse risk rather than being merely theoretical.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium

• Confidence: 91% confidence
• Finding: The triage guidance is built around Portuguese trigger phrases and response handling, such as greeting detection and billing/support classifications, but the document does not state that the skill is limited to Portuguese-speaking leads or a Brazil-specific workflow. This can violate language/locale policy because it implicitly forces a specific language context without offering choice or documenting a justified regional scope.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 91% confidence
• Finding: The documentation instructs operators to export long-lived access tokens and API keys for Meta and GoHighLevel, but it does not warn that these are highly sensitive secrets or provide guidance for secure storage, rotation, redaction, or least-privilege handling. In a skill centered on webhook automation and direct messaging, this omission increases the chance that users place credentials into shell history, shared scripts, logs, or screenshots, leading to account takeover or unauthorized API use if exposed.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low

• Confidence: 84% confidence
• Finding: The document is explicitly split into English and Portuguese sections, but it does not state whether the skill supports user-selected language behavior or is intended only for those locales. Under the policy, hard-coded locale behavior can be a concern when no opt-in or scope justification is provided.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low

• Confidence: 90% confidence
• Finding: This markdown file contains operational instructions exclusively in Portuguese, including critical warnings and required implementation details. Under the policy, forcing a specific language without user opt-in can be a natural-language policy violation when no alternative language option or justification is provided.

Missing User Warnings

Low

• Confidence: 82% confidence
• Finding: This markdown file instructs operators to store `MANAGER_PHONE` in environment or `.env` and use it for automated notifications, which involves handling personal contact data. The document does not include any warning about sensitivity, access control, or privacy implications of storing and using that identifier.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low

• Confidence: 90% confidence
• Finding: The file embeds the status message `Instância Stevo '<instance_name_here>' está inactive`, mixing in Portuguese text as if it is a canonical indicator. This can violate language/locale policy if the skill assumes a specific language without user opt-in or explanation.

Static analysis

Detected: suspicious.exposed_secret_literal

File appears to expose a hardcoded API secret or token.

Critical

• Code: suspicious.exposed_secret_literal
• Location: SKILL.md:117