Subtitle files can hack your computer

http://blog.checkpoint.com/2017/05/23/hacked-in-translation/
Was this brought on us by using media players made in C?

Why is no one commenting on the monstrous use of ``le turing complete enterprise e/g/in web languages'' on something so simple as just colored text on a screen?
If you ask me, that's why this happened. There's no need to implement something that complex there.