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SocQ Rednote Research

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed SocQ integration for collecting public Rednote research data, with some normal API-key and supply-chain cautions.

Before installing, understand that this skill uses your SOCQ_API_KEY to send your Rednote research queries, supplied URLs, and requested collection parameters to SocQ's hosted service and may consume credits. Use a scoped API key with rate or credit limits, confirm large paid jobs, and prefer a pinned or already-installed SocQ CLI instead of unpinned npx for stricter supply-chain control.

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Findings (5)

Rp1

Medium
Category
MCP Rug Pull
Confidence
70% confidence
Finding
npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.

Rp1

Medium
Category
MCP Rug Pull
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding
Using `npx @socq/cli` without a pinned version allows retrieval and execution of whatever version is current at runtime. If the upstream package is compromised, replaced, or introduces a breaking or malicious change, an agent could execute unreviewed code with access to the environment, including `SOCQ_API_KEY`.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Content
value: "socq"
      description: "Hosted SocQ Rednote data tools"
      transport: "streamable_http"
      url: "https://api.socq.ai/mcp?platforms=rednote"
Confidence
50% confidence
Finding
Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Content
value: "socq"
      description: "Hosted SocQ Rednote data tools"
      transport: "streamable_http"
      url: "https://api.socq.ai/mcp?platforms=rednote"
Confidence
50% confidence
Finding
Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low
Confidence
82% confidence
Finding
The validated examples use only Chinese query terms ("旅行攻略" and "摄影") for search operations, which can implicitly steer the skill toward a specific language/locale. The file does not state that Rednote usage is China-specific or that users may provide queries in their preferred language.

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:32