custom-sanitizer-audit SKILL.md skillB
custom-sanitizer-audit from dreadnode/capabilities is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dreadnode/capabilities/custom-sanitizer-audit@git:20260529.17de87fPins git:20260529.17de87f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dreadnode/capabilities
- Path
capabilities/web-security/skills/custom-sanitizer-audit/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260529.17de87f, committed May 29, 2026
- Size
- 4,479 bytes
- Repository stars
- 22
- License
- MIT
Audit custom sanitization functions for bypass vulnerabilities using the Five-Point Checklist and ordering analysis. Use when encountering homegrown sanitize/filter/clean/escape functions, reviewing input validation, or testing custom security wrappers.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Custom Sanitizer Audit
Every homegrown security function is a bypass waiting to be found. Framework-provided sanitizers have years of adversarial testing; custom ones have the developer's imagination as their ceiling.
## The Five-Point Checklist
Every custom sanitizer MUST be evaluated against all five points. A failure on ANY single point is a bypass.
### 1. Case-Insensitive?
```php
// BYPASSABLE: strpos() not stripos()
if (strpos($input, 'SELECT') !== false) { block(); }
// Bypass: select, SeLeCt
// SECURE: stripos()
if (stripos($input, 'SELECT') !== false) { block(); }
```
### 2. Global Replacement?
```javascript
// BYPASSABLE: first match only
input.replace("../", "")
// Input: "....//etc/passwd" → "../etc/passwd"
// SECURE: global flag
input.replace(/\.\.\//g, "")
```
### 3. Recursive?
After one pass of removal, does the remaining string reconstitute the blocked pattern?
```
Input: <scrip<script>t>alert(1)</scrip</script>t>
Pass 1: inner <script> removed → <script>alert(1)</script> ← XSS
```
**Test:** Nest the blocked string inside itself. If the sanitizer runs once, the outer halves collapse into the blocked string.
### 4. Complete?
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dreadnode/capabilities/custom-sanitizer-audit@sha256:751852288695d534The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260529.17de87f, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 29, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No script tag (matched: <script)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4479 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
dreadnode/capabilities · 22 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6pjl4wtapabpun66 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dreadnode/capabilities/custom-sanitizer-audit GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/751852288695d5344378b7648a9405cef4da540ac1dce4df12d4348973129ede
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