hn
Warn
Audited by Snyk on Aug 26, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUM
Full Analysis
MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
- Third-party content exposure detected (medium risk: 0.30). Hacker News (via the Algolia API) front page/search results and then
hn read IDconsume story and comment plaintext authored by third parties, so an outsider can submit/poison text through HN items that the workflow reads at runtime.
MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
- Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 1.00). The SKILL includes an installation command that fetches and builds remote code ("go install github.com/voska/hn-cli/cmd/hn@latest"), which downloads and executes third-party Go code during setup and thus can execute remote code.
Issues (2)
W011
MEDIUMThird-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
W012
MEDIUMUnverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
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