diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 54755da48d..e4c06d271d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ maintainers = [
     {name = "Grub4K", email = "contact@grub4k.xyz"},
     {name = "bashonly", email = "bashonly@protonmail.com"},
     {name = "coletdjnz", email = "coletdjnz@protonmail.com"},
+    {name = "sepro", email = "sepro@sepr0.com"},
 ]
 description = "A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader"
 readme = "README.md"
diff --git a/yt_dlp/utils/_utils.py b/yt_dlp/utils/_utils.py
index 2c23b3ed56..3e3b285a47 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/utils/_utils.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/utils/_utils.py
@@ -5111,6 +5111,7 @@ class _UnsafeExtensionError(Exception):
         'gif',
         'heic',
         'ico',
+        'image',
         'jng',
         'jpeg',
         'jxl',