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Security audit

South African Tax Article Generator

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a straightforward local article generator for South African tax content, with no evidence of hidden access, persistence, credential use, or exfiltration.

Install only if you need South African SARS/VAT/PAYE article drafts. Review all tax deadlines, penalty rates, and generated legal/compliance statements before publishing, and treat any future WordPress publishing integration as requiring separate credential and posting controls.

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
  • MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
  • 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 (3)

Undeclared Tool Scope

Medium
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
89% confidence
Finding

The skill declares no explicit tool scope or permissions despite indicating code components that can perform file-writing operations. In agent environments, missing tool restrictions can allow broader-than-intended filesystem access, increasing the risk of unauthorized file creation or modification if the implementation or surrounding runtime is misconfigured.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
89% confidence
Finding

The file repeatedly states that the skill generates South African tax, VAT, and SARS compliance content as a fixed behavior. This imposes a specific regional/legal locale in the skill description without any indication that users can choose another locale or explicitly opt into this constraint.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
89% confidence
Finding

The top-level natural-language description states that the generator produces South African tax compliance articles, which imposes a specific national/legal locale. There is no accompanying language indicating that the skill is region-specific by design, optional for the user, or otherwise constrained to users who want South African content.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.