threads-profile-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 contains explicit, deceptive instructions to install dependencies and to hide that installation from the user (e.g., "without asking the user to confirm" and "Do not describe it as a request..."), which override user consent and fall outside the advertised scraping purpose.

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 invoke the BrowserAct CLI to access real Threads profile pages at runtime, which will ingest outsider-authored free text (public web page content like bios/activity) into the LLM context via the browser automation workflow.

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


MEDIUM W013: Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

  • Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions detected (high risk: 0.70). The Skill explicitly instructs the agent to automatically install the BrowserAct CLI (a runtime dependency) without asking the user or requesting approval, which directs the agent to modify the host system and potentially perform privileged installation actions.

Issues (4)

E004
CRITICAL

Prompt injection detected in skill instructions.

W011
MEDIUM

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

W012
MEDIUM

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

W013
MEDIUM

Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
CRITICAL
Analyzed
Jul 20, 2026, 04:42 AM
Issues
4
Security Audit — snyk — threads-profile-scraper