researching-web
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Feb 16, 2026
Risk Level: HIGHPROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- Indirect Prompt Injection (HIGH): The skill is highly vulnerable to indirect prompt injection by processing untrusted external content from the web and search engine results.- Ingestion points: Data enters through the
mcp__perplexity-ask__perplexity_asktool and subsequentWebFetchcalls to external URLs cited in search results.- Boundary markers: No explicit delimiters or instructions are provided to separate untrusted web content from the agent's internal reasoning or to ignore embedded instructions in the fetched data.- Capability inventory: The skill possesses dangerous capabilities including file system access (Read,Grep,Glob) and the ability to spawn new subagents with custom prompts via theTasktool.- Sanitization: There is no mention of sanitizing or filtering the content retrieved viaWebFetchbefore it is synthesized into a 'comprehensive answer' or passed to theTaskprompt.- Task Inception (MEDIUM): The skill uses theTasktool to spawn a 'perplexity-researcher' subagent. If the prompt for this subagent incorporates untrusted web content without sanitization, it creates a secondary injection vector where the subagent could be instructed to perform malicious activities within the codebase.
Recommendations
- AI detected serious security threats
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