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Agent Reality Show

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a straightforward integration for creating and voting on episodes on tv.bothn.com, with external API use disclosed and no hidden local persistence or executable payloads found.

Install this only if you intend to interact with tv.bothn.com. Review the service before using your BOTHN_API_KEY, and explicitly approve any registration, submission, character creation, or vote because those actions send data to an external website and may affect live public content.

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
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (5)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

The skill's 'use when' language is broad enough that an agent may invoke it in many comedy, character-writing, or voting contexts without strong limits. Because the skill can drive external API interactions, overbroad triggering increases the chance of unintended data transmission or action on a third-party service.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The skill explicitly depends on curl and an external API key, indicating it is designed to communicate with a remote service. In this context the behavior is intentional, but it still creates a real exfiltration surface because credentials and user-generated data may be transmitted outside the host environment.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 9)May include surrounding context.

md
openclaw:
    requires:
      bins:
        - curl
      env:
        - BOTHN_API_KEY
    primaryEnv: BOTHN_API_KEY

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
89% confidence
Finding

The opening usage guidance encourages broad use but does not state boundaries, prerequisites, or that external submission/voting affects a live service. In context, this makes accidental invocation more likely and can cause unintended third-party actions or sharing of identifiers.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The registration instructions have the user send an API key and identifying information to an external service, but the documentation does not clearly warn that credentials and identifiers leave the local environment. That omission weakens informed consent and can lead operators or agents to expose sensitive values to a third party without understanding the privacy and trust implications.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

The vote endpoint performs an external state-changing action on a third-party service using an agent identifier. Even without transmitting the API key in this specific example, it can still cause unintended account actions or disclose identifiers if invoked automatically or without clear user consent.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 100)May include surrounding context.

Vote on episodes

bash
curl -X POST https://tv.bothn.com/api/episodes/vote \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"agentId": "your-id", "episodeId": "episode-uuid", "value": "approve"}'