watermarks-remover
Fail
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Aug 14, 2026
Risk Level: HIGHREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCOMMAND_EXECUTIONCREDENTIALS_UNSAFE
Full Analysis
- [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: The skill downloads an external repository and immediately executes its contents. Evidence includes:
- Instructions to
git clonethe repositoryhttps://github.com/guillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover.git. - Execution of various Python scripts from the cloned repository using
python3 "$SCRIPTS/..."(e.g.,inspect_file.py,clean_file.py,rewrite_text.py). - Execution of setup scripts like
setup_synthid.shandsetup_ctrlregen.shwhich download additional dependencies and models. - [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill fetches significant amounts of data from unverified sources:
- Clones the primary repository from
guillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover. - Mentions optional heavy backends that download ~10 GB of models from external sources (
aloshdenny/reverse-SynthIDandmertizci/noai-watermark). - The
audit_website.pyscript performs network requests to download sitemaps and remote assets from any user-provided URL. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill relies heavily on the
Bashtool to perform complex shell operations: - Uses
bashto run a helper scriptscripts/watermarks-remover.shthat wraps several Python operations. - Executes
git clone,python3, and potentiallyc2patoolorexiftoolif present on the system. - Uses environment variables to dynamically configure backends and paths (e.g.,
REVERSE_SYNTHID_DIR,NOAI_WATERMARK_DIR). - [CREDENTIALS_UNSAFE]: The skill requires and handles sensitive API credentials:
- Mentions using
WATERMARKS_REWRITE_API_KEYfor OpenAI-compatible backends. - Requires
HF_TOKEN(Hugging Face token) as an environment variable to access gated models for the optional external backends. - [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill processes user-provided content through its "Layer B" (statistical rewrite) which uses an LLM to paraphrase text. This introduces a surface for indirect prompt injection if the source text contains malicious instructions aimed at the rewriting model.
Recommendations
- AI detected serious security threats
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