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
MEDIUMThird-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
W012
MEDIUMUnverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
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