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News Sentiment Scanner

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill fetches public RSS headlines and parses them locally for news scanning, with no hidden persistence or credential access found.

Install only if you are comfortable with the agent making network requests to public news/RSS providers. Treat fetched headlines as untrusted context and verify important claims before making prediction-market or trading decisions.

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
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Findings (1)

External Script Fetching

High
Category
Supply Chain
Content
"https://www.espn.com/espn/rss/news" \
  "https://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/businessNews" \
  "https://cointelegraph.com/rss"; do
  curl -s "$FEED_URL" | python3 -c "
import sys, xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
from datetime import datetime, timezone
try:
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding
Remote code is downloaded and executed. This bypasses code review and could introduce malicious code.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.