twitter-reader
Fail
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 8, 2026
Risk Level: HIGHCOMMAND_EXECUTIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS
Full Analysis
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The script
scripts/fetch_tweets.shis vulnerable to shell command injection. It accepts user-provided URLs as arguments and interpolates them directly into acurlcommand string within double quotes (line 26). While it performs a prefix check to ensure the URL starts with a Twitter/X domain, it does not sanitize or escape shell metacharacters such as$(),`, or;. An attacker providing a URL likehttps://x.com/";id;"could execute arbitrary commands on the host system. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill fetches untrusted data from Twitter/X via the Jina AI Reader API and returns it directly to the agent's context. This creates a surface for indirect prompt injection, where a malicious post could contain hidden instructions to manipulate the agent. Evidence Chain: 1. Ingestion points:
scripts/fetch_tweet.pyandscripts/fetch_tweets.sh(reading from Jina API). 2. Boundary markers: Absent. 3. Capability inventory: The agent has the ability to write arbitrary files viascripts/fetch_tweet.py(line 45) and execute shell scripts. 4. Sanitization: Absent. - [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill retrieves content from Jina AI's official Reader API (
r.jina.ai), which is a well-known service for converting web content into markdown format.
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