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Security audit

IKEA API - Prices by Country, Product Data, Stock by Store, Reviews

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The verdict is benign with medium confidence: the scanners found documented calls to the Scavio IKEA API, while noting a privacy disclosure gap and incomplete coverage.

Before installing, consider whether you are comfortable sending IKEA lookup requests to Scavio. If using home-delivery availability, be aware that the scanner reports the postal code may be shared without a privacy warning. Confidence is medium: Skillspector coverage is partial because some local references could not be resolved, so the evidence is incomplete.

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
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Output HandlingUnvalidated Output Injection, Cross-Context Output, Unbounded Output
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (13)

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
60% 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 270)May include surrounding context.

Compare one article across markets

bash
curl -X POST https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/ikea/compare \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"item_no": "80275887", "countries": ["de", "fr", "se", "nl", "es", "it"]}'

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
50% 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 270)May include surrounding context.

Compare one article across markets

bash
curl -X POST https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/ikea/compare \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"item_no": "80275887", "countries": ["de", "fr", "se", "nl", "es", "it"]}'

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
50% 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 334)May include surrounding context.

Search

bash
curl -X POST https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/ikea/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "kallax"}'

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
50% 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 431)May include surrounding context.

Product

bash
curl -X POST https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/ikea/product \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"item_no": "20522046"}'

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
50% 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 525)May include surrounding context.

Reviews

bash
curl -X POST https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/ikea/reviews \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"item_no": "80275887", "country": "de"}'

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
50% 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 563)May include surrounding context.

Stock at a store

bash
curl -X POST https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/ikea/stock \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"item_nos": ["20522046", "20631663"], "store_id": "399"}'

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
50% 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 601)May include surrounding context.

Items (batch lookup)

bash
curl -X POST https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/ikea/items \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"item_nos": ["80275887", "00263850", "30275861"], "country": "de"}'

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
50% 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 612)May include surrounding context.

Deals

bash
curl -X POST https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/ikea/deals \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"type": "new_lower_price", "country": "gb"}'

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
50% 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 623)May include surrounding context.

Stores

bash
curl -X POST https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/ikea/stores \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"country": "se"}'

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
50% 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 671)May include surrounding context.

As-is (second-hand) offers

bash
curl -X POST https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/ikea/as-is \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"store_id": "257"}'

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
50% 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 732)May include surrounding context.

A franchise site: Puerto Rico

bash
curl -X POST https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/ikea/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "kallax", "country": "pr"}'

Home-delivery lookup instructs sending the user's postal code without a privacy warning.

Medium
Category
Output Handling
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding

The instruction to send zip for home-delivery availability transmits user location data to the third-party Scavio API. Although the API provider and parameter are documented, the skill does not warn the user that their postal code will be shared with that service.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

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 788)May include surrounding context.

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

def ikea(endpoint, body, timeout=180):
    r = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/ikea/{endpoint}", headers=HEADERS, json=body, timeout=timeout)
    r.raise_for_status()
    return r.json()["data"]