youtube-downloader
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Audited by Snyk on Feb 20, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUM
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MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
- Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.70). The skill's script (scripts/download_video.py) calls yt-dlp --dump-json on arbitrary YouTube URLs to fetch and parse public, user-generated video metadata (title/uploader/duration) and then uses/displays that content as part of the download workflow, exposing the agent to untrusted third-party content from YouTube.
MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
- Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.80). The script automatically runs pip to install the "yt-dlp" package at runtime (which fetches and executes code from PyPI, e.g. https://pypi.org/project/yt-dlp/), and yt-dlp is a required dependency for operation, so this runtime fetch can execute remote code.
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