yt-dlp-web-ui through 4.0.0 contains an argument injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to inject yt-dlp options by supplying a dash-prefixed url parameter to the Service.Formats JSON-RPC method. Attackers can send values like --load-info-json via /rpc/http or /rpc/ws to make yt-dlp load attacker-chosen JSON files from the server filesystem, with contents reflected in responses.
{
"cna_assigner": "VulnCheck",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-88"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/109xxx/CVE-2026-109966.json"
}{
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "4.0.0"
},
{
"fixed": "4.0.0"
}
],
"source": [
"AFFECTED_FIELD",
"DESCRIPTION"
]
}