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The trouble with smaller open source software is that there's no 0.1% checking it. And from time to time a small projects becomes widely used and everyone assumes someone already checked it; it's a widely used open source software, after all.
I have the same skeptical mindset as you here, but like Wikipedia still seems fine.
I think most early users do check further than open source licenses. It's possible they'll add things later, but if they add after it has enough users we have significant number of users to have some people check. And if the user base is small then they're probably more involved, or are reading/modifying code for their use cases.
Of course it's not foolproof, but it has worked for a long time because of things like that