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Linkedin Employee Advocacy

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a static LinkedIn employee advocacy planning guide with no code execution, credential use, or hidden system changes.

Before installing, treat this as a business-process planning skill. Its advice includes public LinkedIn posting workflows, auto-publish tiers, and silent approval concepts, so users in regulated or brand-sensitive organizations should adapt the governance rules to their own legal, HR, and consent requirements.

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
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • 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
Findings (1)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

The description declares triggers such as "employee advocacy" and "get the team posting," which are common business phrases that may appear in general discussion without a clear intent to invoke this skill. The file also does not provide exclusion conditions or negative examples to narrow when the skill should and should not activate.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.