youtube-transcript-api@0.1.1 vulnerabilities

This is an python API which allows you to get the transcripts/subtitles for a given YouTube video. It also works for automatically generated subtitles, supports translating subtitles and it does not require a headless browser, like other selenium based solutions do!

  • latest version

    0.6.3

  • latest non vulnerable version

  • first published

    6 years ago

  • latest version published

    1 months ago

  • licenses detected

  • Direct Vulnerabilities

    Known vulnerabilities in the youtube-transcript-api package. This does not include vulnerabilities belonging to this package’s dependencies.

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    XML External Entity (XXE) Injection

    youtube-transcript-api is a This is an python API which allows you to get the transcripts/subtitles for a given YouTube video. It also works for automatically generated subtitles, supports translating subtitles and it does not require a headless browser, like other selenium based solutions do!

    Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) Injection due to the use of Python's xml.etree.ElementTree for parsing XML without proper security restrictions. An attacker can access sensitive data or cause denial of service by submitting malicious XML payloads.

    How to fix XML External Entity (XXE) Injection?

    Upgrade youtube-transcript-api to version 0.6.3 or higher.

    [,0.6.3)