{"id":"MAL-2026-18065","revision":"b2c13ba3afa048db984992301984c8db","records":[{"revision":"b2c13ba3afa048db984992301984c8db","observedAt":"2026-10-24T13:17:17.793+00:00","statement":{"source":"osv","id":"MAL-2026-18065","aliases":[],"title":"Malicious code in animate-tailwind-kit (npm)","description":"animate-tailwind-kit (3.0.1, 3.0.4) is a Tailwind CSS plugin from the fake job interview campaign behind MAL-2026-17665 and MAL-2026-17666: the same Animate.css integration template, README and description, published by johnxia1997 on 2026-09-28. src/motion.js:5 requires the private scoped package @jasperquinn/postcss-motion-helpers, which is not readable on the public registry and resolves only with the npm token committed in the lure repository's web/.npmrc, so the code it delivers runs when tailwind.config.js loads the plugin and the dev server starts. The published tarball contains no install scripts and no network code; the payload lives in the private dependency, which was not retrieved. Twenty-six such packages under seventeen accounts were published between 2026-07-28 and 2026-10-09.","state":0,"publishedAt":"2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00","modifiedAt":"2026-10-20T06:15:05.6917287+00:00","affected":[{"ecosystem":"npm","name":"animate-tailwind-kit","ranges":[],"versions":["3.0.1","3.0.4"],"rawVersionEvidence":null}],"metrics":[],"references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17665","https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17666","https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17667","https://pkgwarden.com/incidents/fake-interview-tailwind-plugins-npm-october-2026/"],"sourceUrl":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18065","license":"OSV · upstream source license applies","key":"osv:MAL-2026-18065","identifiers":["MAL-2026-18065"]},"retained":false,"historicalAffected":[]}],"coverage":[]}