paypal
1 finding (1 high), mainly social engineering. Most recent scan 2026-02-06.
CRITICAL SECURITY RISK - This skill is fundamentally broken and deceptive. It claims to provide PayPal payment integration with sensitive financial operations (sending money, creating invoices, managing transactions) but contains ZERO implementation code. The skill instructs users to expose PayPal API credentials (PAYPAL_CLIENT_ID and PAYPAL_SECRET) as environment variables, creating a credential exposure risk with no actual secure implementation to use them. This is a deceptive skill that misleads users about its capabilities and could lead to credential exposure, failed financial operations, and unpredictable agent behavior. The skill should be removed entirely or completely rewritten with proper implementation before deployment.
Scanner's overall assessment (LLM analyzer)
Second scanner: NVIDIA SkillSpector
The two scanners disagree: Cisco rates this HIGH and SkillSpector found nothing. Check the false-positive register; signature matches on documentation are the usual cause. How the two scanners compare across the whole corpus: Two scanners, one corpus.
What this skill does
PayPal payment integration. Send money, create invoices, and manage PayPal transactions.
- Package
- 1 file, 623 B
- SKILL.md
- 51 words, 4 sections
- Code
- None. Instructions only.
- Requires
- bins:
curljq
SKILL.md covers: PayPal 🅿️ · Setup · Features · Usage Examples
Findings
HIGH Deceptive Skill Description - Non-Functional Implementation Social Engineeringllm
The skill claims to provide 'PayPal payment integration' with features including 'Send payments', 'Create invoices', 'Request money', 'Transaction history', and 'Refunds'. However, there are NO script files (Python or Bash) implementing any of these features. This is a deceptive skill that misleads users about its capabilities. Users may believe they can perform financial transactions, but the skill has no actual implementation. This could lead to users exposing credentials for a non-functional tool or attempting financial operations that will fail.
SKILL.md
Description claims: 'PayPal payment integration. Send money, create invoices, and manage PayPal transactions.' But script files analysis shows: 'No script files found.'What is in the package
| File | Kind | Size |
|---|---|---|
SKILL.md | doc | 623 B |
Package contents recorded 2026-10-22. The scan above ran against the version current at scan time; the two can differ if the skill has since been updated.
What we checked
- Static analyzer. Pattern rules over SKILL.md and bundled files: known-bad commands, exfiltration URLs, secrets, obfuscation.
- Behavioral analyzer. Checks what the skill asks the agent to do against what its description claims it does.
- Llm analyzer. A language model reads the skill and reports intent-level issues the rules cannot express.
- Trigger analyzer. Looks for instructions that fire on conditions the user did not ask for.
- Meta analyzer. A second model pass that validates, deduplicates and re-scores the other analyzers' findings.
What we did not check
- Runtime behaviour. The skill was not executed; findings come from reading its files.
- Anything fetched at install or run time, including remote scripts, package dependencies, and URLs the skill tells the agent to open.
- Content the analyzers cannot read: images, binaries, and some non-English text.
- Known scanner bypass classes. See the methodology and limitations page.
Sources
- Repository: https://clawhub.ai/skills/paypal
- Raw scan result: paypal-scan.json
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