---
id: "MAL-2026-17895"
kind: "package"
aliases: ["MAL-2026-17895"]
title: "Malicious code in web-pixels-manager (npm)"
severity: "critical"
cvss: null
epss: null
exploited: false
status: "open"
category: "package"
products: [{"name": "web-pixels-manager", "fixed": [], "affected": "= 76.2.4", "ecosystem": "npm"}]
ecosystems: ["npm"]
tags: ["malicious", "package"]
not_affected_if: []
published_at: "2026-10-15T13:01:07+00:00"
first_seen_at: "2026-10-26T20:51:54+00:00"
updated_at: "2026-10-26T21:06:18+00:00"
sources: [{"source": "osv-malicious", "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17895", "first_seen_at": "2026-10-26T20:51:54+00:00"}]
---

# Malicious code in web-pixels-manager (npm)

## Affected

- npm:web-pixels-manager affected = 76.2.4 fixed ?

## Timeline

- 2026-10-26T20:51:54+00:00 osv-malicious https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17895

## From the sources

web-pixels-manager@76.2.4 describes itself as a package for getting IP location and metadata. Its preinstall hook runs `node index.js` on npm install and requests `https://realwbx.com/ip.php?ip=8.8.8.8` with the hardcoded Authorization value `207e4133bd083b9e3e89c5556fc8677e`, which differs from the value in each of the account's other packages. The npm account conx3993 published it on 2026-10-15, one of 9 packages from that account between 2026-09-30 and 2026-10-15 whose preinstall hook calls realwbx.com.

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## Source: amazon-inspector (2a75cc1a77f4f7dce3f84c9b66aa2613ace8bccab0fffa5587a4a30ce9fdc71a)
Package name `web-pixels-manager` typosquats Shopify's scoped `@shopify/web-pixels-manager`; the stated description (`get the IP location and metadata`) is unrelated to that name and the README is a one-line stub. `package.json` declares `preinstall: node index.js`, and `index.js` executes top-level code on `npm install` that performs an HTTPS GET to `https://realwbx.com/ip.php` with a hardcoded `Authorization` bearer token (via `getPublicIPLocation('8.8.8.8')`). The destination is not a Shopify or publisher-matching host. The install-time outbound call allows the operator of realwbx.com to enumerate hosts that installed the package, timestamp them, and correlate them to the hardcoded token, providing a victim check-in channel under a typosquatted name.

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