animate-tailwind-kit

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 3.0.1`

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.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/de8db1a3be25640464234f3997f781f65c753bb8/osv/malicious/npm/animate-tailwind-kit/MAL-2026-18065.json))

**References:**
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/de8db1a3be25640464234f3997f781f65c753bb8/osv/malicious/npm/animate-tailwind-kit/MAL-2026-18065.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/526cf1a3bce8849e66f30d10811c539065159fe5/osv/malicious/npm/animate-tailwind-kit/MAL-2026-18065.json
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/animate-tailwind-kit/v/3.0.1
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/animate-tailwind-kit/v/3.0.4

Compromised versions (1)

• = 3.0.1

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