alphaxiv-paper-lookup
Warn
Audited by Snyk on Mar 24, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUM
Full Analysis
MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
- Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.90). The SKILL.md explicitly instructs the agent to fetch and consume AI-generated overviews and full paper text from public third-party endpoints (e.g., https://api.alphaxiv.org/papers/v3/{PAPER_ID}, https://api.alphaxiv.org/papers/v3/{VERSION_ID}/overview/{LANG}, and https://alphaxiv.org/abs/{PAPER_ID}.md), so untrusted external content is read and directly used to drive the agent's outputs and decisions.
MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
- Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.80). The skill makes runtime fetches of external content (e.g., https://api.alphaxiv.org/papers/v3/{VERSION_ID}/overview/{LANG} and https://alphaxiv.org/abs/{PAPER_ID}.md) and injects the returned "intermediateReport"/overview text into the model context to drive its responses, so the remote content directly controls prompts and is a required dependency.
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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