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X Algorithm Optimization

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed X content-optimization guide with a local draft-scoring script, not a tool that accesses accounts, credentials, or systems.

Before installing, understand that this is a marketing strategy aid for improving X reach. Use it for authentic content improvement and testing, and avoid spam, deceptive engagement bait, irrelevant tagging, harassment, or tactics that could violate X rules or damage audience trust.

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
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • 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)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill gives detailed, actionable guidance for optimizing and potentially gaming platform distribution signals, including provoking replies, quote-bait, strategic tagging, and engagement-shaping tactics, without any meaningful warning about platform rules, spam/manipulation policies, or reputational harm. In context, this is more dangerous because the content is explicitly framed as an operational playbook for maximizing reach, which can facilitate manipulative or policy-violating behavior at scale even if it is not directly malware or code-execution related.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.