T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking
- Location
SKILL.md:71- Finding
Forced Third-Party Promotional Attribution in Generated Reports
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Security audit
Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk
This skill is a coherent stock-news summary helper, but users should understand it relies on an unauthenticated HTTP financial-news feed.
Install only if you are comfortable with reports being based on a single third-party HTTP feed from a bare IP address. Treat the output as unverified market information, not investment advice, and verify important claims against primary filings or trusted financial-news sources.
SKILL.md:71Forced Third-Party Promotional Attribution in Generated Reports
SKILL.md:12Unauthenticated Financial Data Retrieval over Plaintext HTTP
The trigger phrases are broad enough to match ordinary requests for market news, which can cause the skill to activate unexpectedly instead of a more appropriate general-answer path. In this skill, unintended invocation matters because activation leads to external data fetching and opinionated filtering of financial information, increasing the chance of surprise behavior and unrequested third-party access.
The skill fetches content from an external API over plain HTTP without warning the user in the description, creating both transparency and security problems. Because the source is unauthenticated and unencrypted, users may unknowingly rely on tampered or intercepted financial-news content, which is especially sensitive in an investing context.
No suspicious patterns detected.