Malicious Package Affecting react-plaid-sdk package, versions *
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- published25 Jun 2025
- disclosed24 Jun 2025
- creditThe Socket Threat Research Team
Introduced: 24 Jun 2025
New Malicious CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-506 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Avoid using all malicious instances of the react-plaid-sdk package.
Overview
react-plaid-sdk is a malicious package. This is a "typosquatting" package, which means the package name is based on existing repositories, namespaces, or components, it aims to trick users to download the package which contains a malicious code.
This package contains a hex-encoded loader which upon installation collects host metadata, decodes its follow-on script and fetches second-stage malware.