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).
- Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill explicitly instructs the agent to automatically install and invoke the BrowserAct CLI at runtime using the provided installation links (e.g., https://www.browseract.com/?co-from=social-media&redirect=https://github.com/browser-act/skills/tree/main), which implies fetching and executing remote installation code as a required dependency.
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
CRITICALPrompt injection detected in skill instructions.
W011
MEDIUMThird-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
W012
MEDIUMUnverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
W013
MEDIUMAttempt to modify system services in skill instructions.
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