validate-references

Warn

Audited by Snyk on Mar 18, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUM
Full Analysis

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

  • Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.80). The skill explicitly performs network requests to public third-party sources — resolving DOIs via the CrossRef API in validate_dois (https://api.crossref.org/works/...) and checking arbitrary URLs from .bib entries in validate_urls — and interprets those responses to mark entries as errors/warnings, so untrusted external content can influence its decisions.

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

  • Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.70). The skill calls install.packages(...) at runtime to fetch required R packages (RefManageR, httr2, curl) from CRAN (e.g., https://cran.r-project.org/), which downloads and executes remote code that the skill depends on.

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
Mar 18, 2026, 07:16 AM
Issues
2