gpt-researcher

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Audited by Snyk on May 17, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUM
Full Analysis

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

  • Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 1.00). The SKILL.md explicitly instructs the agent to run web searches and scrape public sources (e.g., Tavily search, Google/Bing retrievers, MAX_URLS_TO_SCRAPE) and to read saved results like /tmp/tavily_results_*.md as input for report synthesis, so it consumes untrusted third‑party web content that can influence subsequent actions.

MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

  • Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.80). The skill explicitly runs a Tavily search (via /tmp/gptr-env/bin/python ~/.claude/scripts/tavily_search.py) using the Tavily service (https://app.tavily.com) at runtime and then directs Claude to "Read /tmp/tavily_results_*.md"—meaning externally-fetched search results are injected into the model context and thus can directly control prompts, so this is a runtime external dependency that controls agent instructions.

Issues (2)

W011
MEDIUM

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

W012
MEDIUM

Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
May 17, 2026, 06:16 PM
Issues
2