youtube-transcript

Warn

Audited by Snyk on Jun 16, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUM
Full Analysis

MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

  • Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.75). The required runtime workflow uses yt-dlp to fetch YouTube subtitle/VTT content from a user-supplied VIDEO_URL, and that fetched caption text (authored by third parties/YouTube uploaders) is then converted to plain text and fed into the agent for summarization—an outsider-authored free-text injection surface.

MEDIUM W013: Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

  • Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions detected (high risk: 0.70). The prompt explicitly instructs installing software with privileged commands (e.g., "sudo apt install yt-dlp", pip/brew installs and downloading audio), which modify system state and require elevated privileges, so it poses a risk to the host machine.

Issues (2)

W011
MEDIUM

Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

W013
MEDIUM

Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Jun 16, 2026, 07:12 AM
Issues
2
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