web-pentest
Authorized web application penetration testing — reconnaissance, vulnerability analysis, proof-based exploitation, and professional reporting. Adapts Shannon's "No Exploit, No Report" methodology with hard guardrails for scope, authorization, and aux-client leakage. Active testing against running applications you own or have written authorization to test.
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2 findings: 1 critical severity, 1 high severity. Installing this skill is not recommended: please review these findings carefully if you do intend to do so.
E006: Malicious code pattern detected in skill scripts.
What this means
Detected high-risk code patterns in the skill content — including its prompts, tool definitions, and resources — such as data exfiltration, backdoors, remote code execution, credential theft, system compromise, supply chain attacks, and obfuscation techniques.
Why it was flagged
The content explicitly includes offensive payloads and techniques that enable data exfiltration (cookie/JWT grabs, SSRF to cloud metadata), remote code execution (pickle/deserialization, command injection), and credential-theft patterns — all clearly dual-use and usable for deliberate malicious abuse if misapplied despite the stated guardrails.
W007: Insecure credential handling detected in skill instructions.
What this means
The skill handles credentials insecurely by requiring the agent to include secret values verbatim in its generated output. This exposes credentials in the agent’s context and conversation history, creating a risk of data exfiltration.
Why it was flagged
The skill explicitly requires saving full captured credentials/tokens into local evidence files and recording full requests / curl reproducer commands (which can embed secrets), so the agent must handle and output secret values verbatim even though chat redaction is advised.
Low
Low-risk findings.
1 low severity finding. Worth noting, but not necessarily harmful.
W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
What this means
The skill exposes the agent to untrusted, user-generated content from public third-party sources, creating a risk of indirect prompt injection. This includes browsing arbitrary URLs, reading social media posts or forum comments, and analyzing content from unknown websites.
Why it was flagged
The skill’s required workflow performs runtime web reconnaissance by issuing `curl`/browser navigations to the operator-supplied target URLs (Phase 2, with `curl` fetching `robots.txt`/`sitemap.xml`/`.well-known/*`), so the fetched pages/headers/robots/sitemap bodies become LLM-readable evidence files that the model can later read and use for analysis—an outsider-controlled free-text source path.
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- NousResearch/hermes-agent
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- Audited
- Security analysis
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