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LinkedIn Scraper API - Person and Company Profiles, Posts, Jobs

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed LinkedIn data lookup integration that sends user-selected LinkedIn identifiers and searches to Scavio’s API, with no evidence of hidden persistence, local data harvesting, or unsafe automatic actions.

Install only if you are comfortable sending the LinkedIn identifiers and searches you request to Scavio and using a SCAVIO_API_KEY with credit-based billing. Keep the API key in environment or secret storage, cap paginated calls as the skill advises, and avoid using it to infer private details from public profile data.

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
  • 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 (9)

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 181)May include surrounding context.

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

# 1. A person's profile, with experience and education inline
person = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/linkedin/person", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"username": "williamhgates"}).json()

# 2. Their recent posts (a full URL works just as well as a handle)

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 185)May include surrounding context.

md
json={"username": "williamhgates"}).json()

# 2. Their recent posts (a full URL works just as well as a handle)
posts = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/linkedin/person/posts", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates/"}).json()

# 2b. The posts they reacted to instead of the ones they wrote

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 189)May include surrounding context.

md
json={"username": "williamhgates"}).json()

# 2. Their recent posts (a full URL works just as well as a handle)
posts = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/linkedin/person/posts", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates/"}).json()

# 2b. The posts they reacted to instead of the ones they wrote

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 193)May include surrounding context.

md
json={"username": "williamhgates", "type": "reactions"}).json()

# 3. A company profile
company = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/linkedin/company", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"company": "microsoft"}).json()

# 4. Jobs at that company: search by name, then pull one listing in full

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 197)May include surrounding context.

md
json={"company": "microsoft"}).json()

# 4. Jobs at that company: search by name, then pull one listing in full
found = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/linkedin/search/jobs", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"search": "Microsoft software engineer", "location": "United States"}).json()

job = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/linkedin/job", headers=HEADERS,

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 200)May include surrounding context.

md
found = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/linkedin/search/jobs", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"search": "Microsoft software engineer", "location": "United States"}).json()

job = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/linkedin/job", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"job_id": found["data"]["data"][0]["id"]}).json()

# 5. A post and page 1 of its comments

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 204)May include surrounding context.

json={"job_id": found["data"]["data"][0]["id"]}).json()

5. A post and page 1 of its comments

comments = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/linkedin/post/comments", headers=HEADERS, json={"post_id": "7488618410256523265", "page": 1}).json()

text

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 238)May include surrounding context.

json={"job_id": found["data"]["data"][0]["id"]}).json()

5. A post and page 1 of its comments

comments = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/linkedin/post/comments", headers=HEADERS, json={"post_id": "7488618410256523265", "page": 1}).json()

text

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 217)May include surrounding context.

md
cursor, out = None, []
    for _ in range(max_pages):
        payload = {**body, **({"cursor": cursor} if cursor else {})}
        data = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/linkedin/{path}",
                             headers=HEADERS, json=payload).json()["data"]
        out += data["data"]
        if not data["has_more"]:

Static analysis

Detected: suspicious.exposed_secret_literal

File appears to expose a hardcoded API secret or token.

Critical
Code
suspicious.exposed_secret_literal
Location
SKILL.md:39