Malicious Package Affecting react-plaid-sdk package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Exploit Maturity
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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-REACTPLAIDSDK-10500451
  • 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)

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.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1