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Security audit

SaaS Think Tank Research

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The skill’s disclosed, user-controlled connection to a public research service fits its purpose, with no hidden or excessive access evident.

Installation requires a separate, manual connection to saasthinktank.com. Product questions go to that service, so exclude private project details. Check each finding’s original date and limitations; the skill does not promise live vendor verification.

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
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (1)

Description-Behavior Mismatch

High
Category
MCP Tool Poisoning
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The supplied commands perform external-service setup and connectivity diagnostics, rather than searching for or retrieving the specified evidence. An MCP connection could support research, but this chunk provides no research operation or demonstrated connection between the service and the declared task. Its observable purpose is configuring and probing an external integration, an undeclared capability.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.