payloads-methodology
Pass
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 29, 2026
Risk Level: SAFEINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS
Full Analysis
- [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill establishes a vulnerability surface by directing the agent to ingest and follow penetration testing methodologies from an external repository.
- Ingestion points: Numerous external Markdown files hosted on GitHub are listed in the 'Cheatsheet Library' section of
SKILL.md. - Boundary markers: The skill lacks explicit delimiters or instructions to treat the external methodology text as data rather than instructions, potentially leading to the agent obeying commands embedded in the reference material.
- Capability inventory: While
SKILL.mddoes not define its own tools, the methodology describes a workflow utilizing reconnaissance and exploitation tools (e.g., nmap, amass, subfinder) in an environment expected to have therea-universal-orchestratoractive. - Sanitization: There are no mechanisms described for sanitizing or validating the content fetched from the external repository before it is processed by the agent.
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill provides links to multiple external resources on GitHub (
github.com/swisskyrepo/payloadsallthethings). While these are well-known documentation files for security research, they represent remote dependencies that the agent is encouraged to fetch during its workflow.
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