news-aggregator-skill-3
Pass
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Mar 17, 2026
Risk Level: SAFEEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCOMMAND_EXECUTIONPROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is vulnerable to indirect prompt injection (Category 8) as it is designed to fetch, summarize, and "deeply interpret" content from untrusted external sources.
- Ingestion points: Untrusted article text is retrieved from arbitrary external URLs via the
fetch_url_contentfunction inscripts/fetch_news.py. - Boundary markers: The skill instructions lack explicit delimiters or safety instructions to prevent the agent from following malicious commands that might be embedded within the fetched news articles.
- Capability inventory: The skill can perform outbound network requests and is instructed to write timestamped report files to the local
reports/directory. - Sanitization: While the script removes basic HTML tags like
<script>and<style>, it does not perform semantic sanitization to neutralize potential prompt injection attacks contained within the article text. - [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The
scripts/fetch_news.pyscript performs outbound HTTP GET requests to various external domains (e.g., news.ycombinator.com, github.com, weibo.com, 36kr.com) and follows links to arbitrary third-party websites to extract article content for deep analysis. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill relies on the execution of a Python script (
scripts/fetch_news.py) and directs the agent to generate and save markdown reports into a localreports/subdirectory, involving dynamic file path generation.
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