Vulnerability Report Summarizer

What it does

Reads a disclosure's technical description (vulnerability type, affected version range, CVSS score) and translates it into what an attacker could actually do, whether the site's installed version is affected, and how urgently it needs patching, without softening a serious rating to make the summary read more comfortably.

Install

This skill isn't packaged in an installable registry. It's a plain SKILL.md file you can copy directly. Copy it from the SKILL.md tab and save it at the path for your assistant:

Use it in your AI assistant

Claude Code

.claude/skills/vulnerability-report-summarizer/ (or ~/.claude/skills/vulnerability-report-summarizer/ for all projects)

GitHub Copilot (VS Code)

.github/skills/vulnerability-report-summarizer/

OpenAI Codex

.codex/skills/vulnerability-report-summarizer/

Cursor

.cursor/skills/vulnerability-report-summarizer/ (or ~/.cursor/skills/vulnerability-report-summarizer/ globally)

Compatibility

Any WordPress site; needs the installed plugin version and access to the disclosure text (a security intelligence feed, or the plugin's own advisory).

The complete SKILL.md for this skill:

---
name: vulnerability-report-summarizer
description: Use when a user gets a vulnerability alert for an installed plugin and wants to know in plain terms how serious it is and whether they're actually affected.
---

# Vulnerability Report Summarizer

## When to use
A vulnerability disclosure or security alert has come in for a plugin the site uses, and the user needs to quickly understand the real risk and urgency, not just the raw technical writeup.

## Procedure
1. Identify the vulnerability type (SQL injection, XSS, privilege escalation, auth bypass, etc.), the affected version range, and the CVSS score or severity rating from the disclosure.
2. Compare the affected version range against the site's actually installed version to confirm whether the site is exposed at all.
3. Translate the vulnerability type into what an attacker could concretely do if exploited (read data, take over an account, inject malicious code), in plain language.
4. Note any prerequisites for exploitation (requires an authenticated user, requires a specific plugin setting enabled) that affect real-world risk versus the raw severity score.
5. State clearly whether a patched version is available and how urgently to apply it, without downplaying a high-severity finding to make the summary sound less alarming.
6. If the site isn't running the affected version, say so plainly as the headline of the summary.

## Guardrails
- Never soften or reinterpret a high-severity rating downward without a concrete reason (like a mitigating prerequisite); when in doubt, treat it as seriously as the original disclosure.
- Do not include exploit code, proof-of-concept steps, or attack details beyond what's needed to understand the risk, this summary is for patch prioritization, not attack instructions.