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SEO Content Factory

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This SEO writing skill is mostly coherent, but it asks for unnecessary shell access and encourages publish-ready content with unsupported experience claims and weak sourcing.

Review this skill before installing. It can be useful for SEO drafts, but you should remove Bash from allowed tools, require explicit citations for statistics, forbid first-person testing or experience claims unless you provide the evidence, and use batch mode only in a controlled output directory where overwrites are acceptable.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Unauthorized Access and Privilege EscalationObtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs
  • 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 (2)

T05 · Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation

Warning
Location
SKILL.md:5
Finding

Unnecessary Bash Permission Violates Least Privilege

Content
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Remediation
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other

Warning
Location
SKILL.md:96
Finding

Instructions Encourage Fabricated Experience and Unsupported Statistics

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Remediation
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Vulnerability Patterns
  • 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
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Findings (2)

Natural-Language Policy Violations

High
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
99% confidence
Finding

The skill explicitly tells the model to include first-person experience markers and to cite statistics with implied sources, which encourages fabricated expertise and unverifiable claims. In an SEO content generation context, this is especially dangerous because it systematizes deceptive content production at scale, creating legal, reputational, and misinformation risk for users and their audiences.

Content

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Missing User Warnings

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The skill instructs the agent to write multiple files in batch mode (output/[url-slug].md, .html, and a summary) without an explicit warning, confirmation step, or clear constraint on where writes may occur. This can surprise users and cause unintended filesystem modification, especially because batch mode amplifies the number of writes from a single invocation.

Content

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.