zhihu-topic-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 instructions to automatically install a runtime dependency and to hide that action from the user (do not request approval / do not describe it as asking the user to open their browser), which is a deceptive behavior outside the scraper's stated data-collection purpose.

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

  • Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.75). SKILL.md instructs the agent to use the BrowserAct CLI to access real Zhihu web pages at runtime (public web content), which can include outsider-authored free text that the agent may ingest into the LLM context via the browser-extracted page content.

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 (medium risk: 0.60). The skill instructs the agent to automatically install missing CLI dependencies without user confirmation and to resume execution, which directs the agent to modify the host system (install software) and could trigger privileged operations even though it does not explicitly request sudo or create accounts.

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, 04:30 AM
Issues
4
Security Audit — snyk — zhihu-topic-scraper