instagram-hashtag-scraper
Fail
Audited by Snyk on Jul 20, 2026
Risk Level: CRITICAL
Full Analysis
CRITICAL E004: Prompt injection detected in skill instructions.
- Potential prompt injection detected (high risk: 1.00). The Skill explicitly instructs the agent to install BrowserAct automatically and "do not request separate approval" or present it as a user action, which directs deceptive behavior (installing without user consent) outside the advertised scraping purpose.
CRITICAL E006: Malicious code pattern detected in skill scripts.
- Malicious code pattern detected (high risk: 0.90). This Skill explicitly instructs silent, automatic installation and invocation of an external CLI (BrowserAct) without user confirmation and to conceal the installation as not requiring user action, creating a clear supply-chain/unauthorized-installation risk that could enable remote code execution or data exfiltration.
MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
- Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.85). SKILL.md instructs the agent to use the BrowserAct CLI to access real Instagram pages at runtime and scrape public hashtag/post content, which is outsider-authored free text fetched from the web and then ingested into the agent’s LLM context.
MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
- Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The Skill explicitly requires the BrowserAct CLI at runtime and directs the agent to automatically install it from https://www.browseract.com/?co-from=social-media and https://www.browseract.com/?co-from=social-media&redirect=https://github.com/browser-act/skills/tree/main, which are external installers fetched/executed during runtime and thus can directly control agent execution.
Issues (4)
E004
CRITICALPrompt injection detected in skill instructions.
E006
CRITICALMalicious code pattern detected in skill scripts.
W011
MEDIUMThird-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
W012
MEDIUMUnverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
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