MAL-2026-17481 Malicious code in css-light-dark-polyfill (npm)

Malicious package Published
Package
css-light-dark-polyfill
Registry
npm

What is MAL-2026-17481?

MAL-2026-17481 is a malicious package in css-light-dark-polyfill, published on 4 Oct 2026.

Official description

The package presents itself as a trivial CSS polyfill (index.js exports an empty object) but ships thunderboltRegistry.js, which on load runs a self-invoking IIFE that collects host identifiers (os.hostname, node version, platform, pid) and the output of local shell commands (id, whoami, uname -a, ifconfig/ip addr, /etc/hosts via child_process.execSync) and POSTs each result via fetch() to the hardcoded endpoint https://dxpoc.gt.tc/callback.php/. The payload self-labels as 'beacon=rce-poc'. The package also exports factories under the names of internal Wix Thunderbolt build registries (thunderboltRegistry, siteAssetsRegistry, documentManagementRegistry, editorRegistry, etc.), and a bundled registry-manifest.min.json maps those names to parastorage.com URLs — a dependency-confusion shape targeting Wix-like build systems that resolve these internal registry module names. Installing or loading this package causes host reconnaissance data to be exfiltrated to an attacker-controlled domain unrelated to any CSS polyfill functionality.

What should I do about MAL-2026-17481?

Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.

Sources

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