animatecss-tailwind-vectrix

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 2.0.6`

animatecss-tailwind-vectrix (2.0.6, 2.0.7) 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 cypherbyte on 2026-09-28. src/motion.js:5 requires the private scoped package @aaron205whitmore/postcss-animate-utils, 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.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/de8db1a3be25640464234f3997f781f65c753bb8/osv/malicious/npm/animatecss-tailwind-vectrix/MAL-2026-18074.json))

**References:**
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/de8db1a3be25640464234f3997f781f65c753bb8/osv/malicious/npm/animatecss-tailwind-vectrix/MAL-2026-18074.json
- 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
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/cc8ee308c3a331b6848b53a312a11cd5dc39dd54/osv/malicious/npm/animatecss-tailwind-vectrix/MAL-2026-18074.json
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/animatecss-tailwind-vectrix/v/2.0.6
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/animatecss-tailwind-vectrix/v/2.0.7

Compromised versions (1)

• = 2.0.6

Any computer that installed or ran a compromised version should be considered fully compromised. Rotate every secret on that machine from a clean environment.