Security audit

Academic Paper Search

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed academic literature-search workflow, with only minor user-control considerations around language and scheduled alerts.

Before installing, confirm that you want a Chinese-oriented literature-search workflow and only enable scheduled monitoring or push reminders when you have chosen the keywords, frequency, and destination.

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

Medium

Category: Not specified by scanner
Confidence: 94% confidence
Finding: The file contains explicit natural-language instructions to generate output in Chinese ("生成中文摘要便于快速浏览") and the overall workflow is written as mandatory instructions rather than an opt-in locale preference. This creates a language-policy issue because the skill constrains output language without giving the user a choice or stating a region-specific justification.
Content: No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.