The problem was already reported and [a tentative fix](https://github.com/0xAX/Ybot/issues/61) was proposed but: - there is [another occurrence of the the code it patches](https://github.com/0xAX/Ybot/blob/master/src/transport/http/http_handler.erl#L132) - it uses double quotes so it doesn't protect much (you can still invoke arbitrary commands in subshells). - the default install comes with the [ruby.rb](https://github.com/0xAX/Ybot/blob/master/plugins/ruby.rb) plugin which allows arbitrary code execution anway