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The News

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a read-only news lookup guide that uses a public headline API and does not ask for credentials, local data, persistence, or privileged actions.

Before installing, be aware that the skill sends news queries to thehear.org and returns third-party headlines plus AI-generated overviews. Use the raw headlines as primary evidence and verify important claims with original sources when accuracy matters.

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
  • 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 (1)

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
77% confidence
Finding

Lines L81-L84 direct agents to use /en/ URLs for the web interface, which implies an English locale choice in natural-language guidance. Because the document does not mention that other language options may exist or that English should be used only when appropriate for the user, this can conflict with language/locale choice expectations.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.