awesome-webpage-image-download
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Audited by Socket on Aug 1, 2026
1 alert found:
AnomalyAnomalyscripts/image_download.py
LOWAnomalyLOW
scripts/image_download.py
This module is best characterized as an attacker-influenceable ‘image URL downloader’ that reads URLs from untrusted stdin and fetches them over the network without allowlists/egress controls, creating an SSRF risk depending on runtime network privileges. It also writes attacker-controlled remote bytes to disk (subject to heuristic image signature/content-type checks and sanitized filenames). While there is no clear evidence of intentional malware (no exec/persistence/secret theft in this code), its network-and-write capabilities make it security-sensitive in a supply-chain or pipeline context.
Confidence: 74%Severity: 62%
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