{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including vite-plugin-image-analysis.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-14480 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.","what":"MAL-2026-14480 is a malicious package in vite-plugin-image-analysis, published on 25 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-14480 is a malicious package: vite-plugin-image-analysis (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.\n\nTask:\n1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.\n3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.\n4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-14480/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-14480/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-14480","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-14480/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-14480","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"The package presents itself as a Vite 'image analysis' plugin but contains no image-analysis code. Its `transformIndexHtml` hook injects an inline `\u003cscript\u003e` into every built HTML page. The injected script reads user identity fields (`account`/`username`/`userNo`, `phone`, `realName`) from `sessionStorage.userInfo`, hooks `sessionStorage.setItem` so the beacon fires after login writes these fields, and sends the values along with host and OS to a remote endpoint. The destination URL is not a plain literal: a base64 blob is decoded and XOR'd with 42 at runtime in the victim's browser (`atob(_c).split('').map(c =\u003e String.fromCharCode(c.charCodeAt(0) ^ 42)).join('')`), and the outbound query string is similarly XOR(42)+base64 wrapped. Delivery uses stealth transports — `navigator.sendBeacon`, `fetch(..., { mode: 'no-cors', referrerPolicy: 'no-referrer' })` — that suppress network-panel visibility and referrer leakage. A developer who adds this plugin to their Vite build unknowingly ships a covert end-user PII scraper into their production site, with the exfil destination hidden from anyone inspecting the built bundle.","ecosystems":["npm"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":null,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":null,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":null,"nuclei":null,"refs":[],"tier":null},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Malicious code in vite-plugin-image-analysis (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-14480","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"malicious","links":{"ecosystem":"npm","product":null,"products":[],"type":null,"year":"2026"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":null,"packages":[{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":[],"introduced":[],"last_affected":[],"package":"vite-plugin-image-analysis","purl":"pkg:npm/vite-plugin-image-analysis","source":"MAL-2026-14480"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-08-25","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"OpenSSF Malicious Packages","prefix":"MAL"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":null,"updated":null,"vendors":null},"summary":null,"url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-14480/"}