youtube-transcript

Warn

Audited by Snyk on May 14, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUM
Full Analysis

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

  • Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.80). The skill's required workflow (SKILL.md Steps 2–4) uses yt-dlp to fetch subtitles from arbitrary YouTube URLs and converts those .vtt captions into plain text, meaning the agent ingests untrusted, user-generated third-party content (YouTube transcripts) that it will read/interpret and which could contain instructions influencing subsequent actions.

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

  • Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions detected (medium risk: 0.60). The skill instructs installing system packages using "sudo apt install -y yt-dlp" (and other install commands), which asks the agent to perform privileged system changes and thus can modify the machine's state.

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
May 14, 2026, 02:31 AM
Issues
2
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