youtube-topic-researcher
Fail
Audited by Snyk on Mar 30, 2026
Risk Level: HIGH
Full Analysis
HIGH W007: Insecure credential handling detected in skill instructions.
- Insecure credential handling detected (high risk: 1.00). It asks the agent to check memory or prompt the user for their YouTube API key and then directs replacing the API_KEY placeholder with that actual key in shell commands (YT_API_KEY=API_KEY ...), which requires the LLM to handle and potentially output the secret verbatim.
MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
- Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.90). The SKILL.md workflow explicitly runs a Python script that calls the YouTube Data API v3 to fetch public, user-generated video metadata (titles, descriptions, tags, comments/counts via videos.list and channels.list) and then reads the generated topic_research_data.json (Steps 3, 7, 8) to drive analysis and recommendations, so untrusted third‑party content from YouTube can materially influence the agent's decisions.
Issues (2)
W007
HIGHInsecure credential handling detected in skill instructions.
W011
MEDIUMThird-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
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