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Incident detail

criticalnpm·typosquatting·osv

Malicious code in wp-env (npm)

wp-env

Risk score

92

AI summary

Indexed incident for wp-env (npm).

Description

Package squats the wp-env CLI name commonly invoked as npx wp-env by users intending @wordpress/env. The package ships only bin/run.js (declared main: index.js is absent from the tarball), so its sole execution surface is the bin script that fires when a developer runs npx wp-env. On execution, bin/run.js reads process.env.INIT_CWD, derives the basename of the installer's project directory, and POSTs it together with timestamp and package metadata to a hardcoded callback URL https://deepbounty.dd06-dev.fr/cb/dc43de99-70fc-4782-8668-bec6eee1975b. The package self-describes as a 'Security PoC for Bug Bounty' — name-confusion attack against @wordpress/env combined with concrete installer-side data exfiltration (the project directory basename, sent to an attacker-controlled host that uses a per-target callback path to identify successfully-confused victims). This satisfies both the typosquat shape (≤2 char edit / namespace confusion vs. @wordpress/env's wp-env CLI) and a concrete exfil payload to an attacker-controlled destination.

Technical details

Affected versions

=1.0.0

Indicators

  • affected version=1.0.075%

Timeline

  1. Advisory published
  2. Indexed by ThreatPkg

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