Cryptanalysis and improvement of a quantum secret sharing scheme based on \chi-type entangled states

In the paper 2010 Chin. Phys. B 19 050306, Yang et al. put forward a novel three-party quantum secret sharing protocol of secure direct communication based on \chi-type entangled states, they claimed that the scheme is secure. However, in this paper, we study the security of the protocol and find that it is insecure. Applying intercept and resend attack, the agent Bob can obtain Alice's secret without the help from the other agent Charlie. In the end, we give our effective modification for its improvement.