web-fetch
Audited by Socket on Mar 2, 2026
1 alert found:
MalwareThis skill is functionally aligned with its stated purpose: it provides recipes to fetch web articles and images and store them locally as markdown. There is no evidence of malware, hardcoded credential harvesting, or direct exfiltration of local secrets. The main security risks are privacy and supply-chain trust: using r.jina.ai routes article URLs and content through a third party (potential content/URL leakage), and downloading images or rendering pages with headless browsers increases exposure to malicious remote content. Recommendations: (1) clearly warn users that using Jina (r.jina.ai) will send article content/URLs to that service and provide an opt-out (use local tools); (2) recommend TLS verification and avoid insecure flags; (3) suggest integrity checks or allow manual review of fetched content before running any further processing; (4) caution about running headless browsers on untrusted sites. Overall risk is moderate primarily from data-privacy/third-party reliance rather than active malicious code.