playwright-local

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Audited by Socket on Sep 4, 2026

3 alerts found:

AnomalySecurityx2
AnomalyLOW
SKILL.md

SUSPICIOUS. The core Playwright setup is coherent and mostly benign, using official package sources for the main tool, but the skill goes beyond ordinary automation into stealth/anti-bot evasion and includes third-party stealth dependencies plus an inconsistent MCP install example. No direct credential theft or exfiltration is shown, but the publisher/scope mismatch around optional packages and bypass guidance makes the overall skill medium risk rather than benign.

Confidence: 91%Severity: 58%
SecurityMEDIUM
references/common-blocks.md

The provided fragment is strongly indicative of an abuse-enabling browser automation toolkit: it teaches evasion of anti-bot controls (stealth/timing/proxy rotation), demonstrates authenticated login using real credentials, persists harvested session cookies to disk, and includes CAPTCHA-solving integration via third-party services. While it does not clearly show conventional malware (e.g., backdoors/system damage) in the fragment itself, it materially enables credential/session misuse and policy-violating scraping at scale. Treat as high operational security risk for any supply-chain dependency and require strict review for legitimacy and usage constraints.

Confidence: 62%Severity: 82%
SecurityMEDIUM
references/stealth-techniques.md

No clear indicators of classic malware (exfiltration, system compromise, or persistence) exist in the provided fragment. However, it is explicitly engineered to evade bot-detection by spoofing multiple high-signal browser fingerprint/probing surfaces at page load and by using headless automation and optional proxy routing (including credentials). It also recommends practices commonly used for abusive automation (residential proxies and CAPTCHA/anti-captcha). Additionally, disabling the browser sandbox via launch flags creates an operational security hardening concern. Overall, this module should be treated as high-abuse-risk software rather than malware, and its use should be tightly controlled and reviewed for compliance and safe runtime configuration.

Confidence: 70%Severity: 70%
Audit Metadata
Analyzed At
Sep 4, 2026, 06:57 AM
Package URL
pkg:socket/skills-sh/dennislee928%2Fethic-latex%2Fplaywright-local%2F@61d420346eda15d2e7c743d285d6046b3abf593f0e2479f166c38c5b9fe3351e
Security Audit — socket — playwright-local