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Security audit

Trustpilot Reviews API - Business Search, TrustScore, Reviews, Categories

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed Trustpilot data API guide that sends user-requested queries to Scavio and returns public review and business data.

Before installing, understand that queries and your Scavio API key are sent to Scavio, API calls consume paid or free credits, and returned business contact details or review data should be used in line with privacy laws, platform terms, and the user's stated intent.

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
  • 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
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 156)May include surrounding context.

Examples

bash
curl -X POST https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/trustpilot/reviews \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domain": "nordvpn.com", "stars": [1, 2], "language": "en"}'

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 156)May include surrounding context.

Examples

bash
curl -X POST https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/trustpilot/reviews \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domain": "nordvpn.com", "stars": [1, 2], "language": "en"}'

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 172)May include surrounding context.

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

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

Missing User Warnings

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
78% confidence
Finding

The markdown explicitly states that search and business endpoints can return published email, phone, and address data, and it promotes building lead lists from that information. However, it does not include a clear user-facing warning about privacy-sensitive handling or downstream use of that contact data. For markdown files, omissions around behaviors that could affect user privacy are in scope.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

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