yt-dlp
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Audited by Snyk on Apr 6, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUM
Full Analysis
MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
- Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill invokes yt-dlp to download and extract data from arbitrary public URLs (SKILL.md triggers on requests like "download this video"), and the included README documents features that ingest untrusted user-generated content—e.g., metadata/description used in output templates (-o), --exec commands, --write-comments, --dump-pages, and SponsorBlock API calls—so webpage/comments/subtitles can be read and can materially influence tool behavior and follow-up actions.
MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
- Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The README explicitly references and allows fetching/executing external JavaScript components from the yt-dlp-ejs GitHub (https://github.com/yt-dlp/ejs) at runtime via --remote-components or when yt-dlp-ejs is required for YouTube cipher deciphering, so remote content from that URL can be fetched and executed and is a required dependency for some YouTube downloads.
Issues (2)
W011
MEDIUMThird-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
W012
MEDIUMUnverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
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