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Home Depot Product Data API - Search, Item Detail, Reviews

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed Home Depot data lookup integration that uses a Scavio API key and does not show hidden or destructive behavior.

Install only if you are comfortable using Scavio for Home Depot data and sharing your search terms, item IDs, and API key with that service. Keep the API key scoped and revocable, watch credit usage before loops, and use an isolated environment if you try the optional SDKs.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Insecure DependenciesIntroduces malicious components through unsafe dependency sources
  • 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
Findings (1)

T08 · Insecure Dependencies

Warning
Location
SKILL.md:208
Finding

Optional Third-Party SDK Installation Without Integrity Verification

Content
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Remediation
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Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Findings (4)

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
70% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 121)May include surrounding context.

md
HEADERS = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"}

# 1. Search, cheapest first, under $300
found = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/homedepot/search", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"query": "cordless drill", "sort_by": "price_low", "max_price": 300}).json()

item_id = found["data"]["products"][0]["item_id"]

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
70% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 144)May include surrounding context.

md
HEADERS = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"}

# 1. Search, cheapest first, under $300
found = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/homedepot/search", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"query": "cordless drill", "sort_by": "price_low", "max_price": 300}).json()

item_id = found["data"]["products"][0]["item_id"]

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
70% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 127)May include surrounding context.

md
item_id = found["data"]["products"][0]["item_id"]

# 2. Full item detail (a pasted product URL works just as well)
item = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/homedepot/product", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"item_id": item_id}).json()

# 3. Reviews, page 2 onward - stop at total_pages, never guess past it

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
70% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 131)May include surrounding context.

md
json={"item_id": item_id}).json()

# 3. Reviews, page 2 onward - stop at total_pages, never guess past it
reviews = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/homedepot/reviews", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"item_id": item_id, "page": 2}).json()

print(reviews["data"]["total_pages"], reviews["data"]["count"])