web-search

Warn

Audited by Snyk on Aug 24, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUM
Full Analysis

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

  • Third-party content exposure detected (medium risk: 0.30). DuckDuckGo Web Search’s required workflow runs a search script (search.py) using user-provided free-text as the -q/--query value, and at runtime it ingests outsider-authored snippets returned by DuckDuckGo (text/news) or related image metadata from search results.

Issues (1)

W011
MEDIUM

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

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Aug 24, 2026, 12:52 PM
Issues
1
Security Audit — snyk — web-search