Shodan Reconnaissance and Pentesting

Fail

Audited by Snyk on Apr 15, 2026

Risk Level: HIGH
Full Analysis

HIGH W007: Insecure credential handling detected in skill instructions.

  • Insecure credential handling detected (high risk: 1.00). The skill repeatedly shows and instructs embedding API keys directly into CLI commands, curl URLs, and code (e.g., shodan init YOUR_API_KEY, curl ...?key=YOUR_KEY, API_KEY = 'YOUR_API_KEY'), which would require the LLM to handle and emit secret values verbatim and therefore poses a high exfiltration risk.

MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

  • Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill explicitly instructs the agent to fetch and parse untrusted public internet content from Shodan (e.g., shodan search/host/download results.json.gz, API host/search calls, and fields like http.html, http.title, and screenshots) and to act on those findings as part of the recon workflow, so third‑party webpages/banners/screenshots could indirectly inject instructions influencing subsequent actions.

Issues (2)

W007
HIGH

Insecure credential handling detected in skill instructions.

W011
MEDIUM

Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
HIGH
Analyzed
Apr 15, 2026, 06:10 PM
Issues
2
Security Audit — snyk — Shodan Reconnaissance and Pentesting