---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@shotstack/shotstack-studio"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@shotstack/shotstack-studio/v/2.23.0.md"
package: "@shotstack/shotstack-studio"
report_status: "published"
title: "@shotstack/shotstack-studio@2.23.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "2.23.0"
---

# @shotstack/shotstack-studio@2.23.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 12 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 2.23.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

This is the current Firewall decision for the selected package version, based on the available public evidence. Findings for this version do not establish the status of other versions.

AI assessment: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

A WOFF2 font load fetches an external JavaScript decompressor and evaluates its response. No confirmed attack against package consumers was identified, but the network response has code-execution authority in the browser.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 95.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-29T02:23:10.278Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-29T02:24:44.623Z
- **Download time:** 1011 ms
- **Static scan time:** 30908 ms
- **AI review time:** 62425 ms
- **Total time:** 94345 ms

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** A WOFF2 font load fetches an external JavaScript decompressor and evaluates its response. No confirmed attack against package consumers was identified, but the network response has code-execution authority in the browser.

- **Trigger:** A consumer loads a WOFF2 font through the package.

- **Impact:** A compromised or substituted CDN response could execute arbitrary browser-side code in the consumer application.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/internal.es.js, dist/internal.umd.js, dist/shotstack-studio.es.js, dist/shotstack-studio.umd.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-29T02:24:44.623Z

### AI review details

- **Review stage:** source\_first\_review

- **Mechanism:** The font loader downloads the decompressor from unpkg.com and passes the response to Function without an integrity check.

- **Rationale:** The package contains a reachable remote code-loading primitive in all distributed entry bundles. This is a serious vulnerability, not evidence that the package itself is malicious.

- **Network endpoints:** https://unpkg.com/wawoff2@2.0.1/build/decompress\_binding.js

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 95.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Critical Vulnerability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** Package metadata has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook., Each distributed bundle fetches JavaScript from an external CDN and immediately evaluates it with Function., The evaluation path is activated while loading a user-supplied WOFF2 font., The same remote execution pattern exists in both ES and UMD entry bundles.

- **Evidence against:** The external code path is for WOFF2 font decompression and is not install-time behavior., No credential harvesting, filesystem mutation, or unrelated exfiltration was found in the inspected paths.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @shotstack/shotstack-studio@2.23.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @shotstack/shotstack-studio@2.23.0 before allowing it. Restrict the permissions described in this report.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

### 2. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/shotstack-studio.umd.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@shotstack/shotstack-studio@2.23.0/dist/shotstack-studio.umd.js>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L198: 
L199: `,d3:'// https://d3js.org v7.9.0 Copyright 2010-2023 Mike Bostock\n!function(t,n){"object"==typeof exports&&"undefined"!=typeof module?n(exports):"function"==typeof define&&define....
L200: * anime.js v3.2.2
```

### 4. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 5. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 6. Critical: Remote Asset Decode Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/shotstack-studio.es.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@shotstack/shotstack-studio@2.23.0/dist/shotstack-studio.es.js>)

Source fetches a remote non-code asset, decodes its contents, and dynamically executes the decoded payload.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L44680: async load(t, i, r) {
L44681: const n = t.split("?")[0]?.split(".").pop()?.toLowerCase() ?? "", s = await fetch(t).then((f) => f.arrayBuffer());
L44682: if (n !== "woff2") {
...
L44693: return;
L44694: const i = `${await fetch("https://unpkg.com/wawoff2@2.0.1/build/decompress_binding.js").then((r) => r.text())}; return Module`;
L44695: this.woff2Decompressor = new Function(i)(), await new Promise((r) => {
L44696: this.woff2Decompressor.onRuntimeInitialized = r;
```

### 7. High: Obfuscated Payload Loader
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/shotstack-studio.umd.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@shotstack/shotstack-studio@2.23.0/dist/shotstack-studio.umd.js>)

Source contains an obfuscated payload loader that reconstructs and executes hidden code.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L65: `)})}else r+=1}return t}function _D(e){const t=[],i=e.split(/\r?\n/);let r=0;for(;r<i.length;){const n=i[r].trim();if(/^\d+$/.test(n)||n==="")r+=1;else if(n.includes("-->")){const[...
L66: `)})}else r+=1}return t}function ED(e){return e.trim().startsWith("WEBVTT")?SD(e):_D(e)}function AD(e,t){return e.find(i=>t>=i.start&&t<=i.end)??null}var TD=Object.create,rd=Object...
L67: `).filter(a=>a),n=Math.min(...r.map(a=>a.length-a.trimStart().length)),s=r.map(a=>a.slice(n)).map(a=>" ".repeat(this.indent*2)+a);for(const a of s)this.content.push(a)}compile(){co...
...
L69: `)}
L70: };`)(...Object.values(this.closed))}};const yP={major:4,minor:6,patch:5},Xe=J("$ZodType",(e,t)=>{var i;e??(e={}),e._zod.def=t,e._zod.bag=e._zod.bag||{},e._zod.version=yP;const r=e....
L71: let ${_}_ab = false;
...
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```

### 8. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/shotstack-studio.es.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@shotstack/shotstack-studio@2.23.0/dist/shotstack-studio.es.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.module -> dist/shotstack-studio.es.js
Reachable file contains a blocking source-risk pattern.
```

### 9. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 10. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 11. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 12. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/shotstack-studio.es.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@shotstack/shotstack-studio@2.23.0/dist/shotstack-studio.es.js>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_path_work_budget_exceeded; limitedFiles = 2
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepare, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 8
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 27
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 8

### Published dependency entries
- @shotstack/schemas 1.20.1 (Dependency)
- @shotstack/shotstack-canvas ^2.11.1 (Dependency)
- howler ^2.2.4 (Dependency)
- mediabunny ^1.11.2 (Dependency)
- opentype.js ^1.3.4 (Dependency)
- pixi-filters ^6.0.5 (Dependency)
- pixi.js ^8.15.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.0.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @shotstack/shotstack-studio
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.23.0
- **License:** PolyForm Shield License 1.0.0
- **Version published:** 2026-09-29T02:22:20.493Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-02T11:28:16.533Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-30T21:48:54.666Z
- **Known versions:** 22
- **Latest version:** 2.23.2
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** A video editing library for creating and editing videos with Shotstack
- **Author:** Shotstack
- **Maintainers:** dazer, ommar
- **Keywords:** shotstack, video, editing, ffmpeg
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20 \<=24
- **Artifact files:** 9
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 12,199,869 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@shotstack/shotstack-studio/v/2.23.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/shotstack/shotstack-studio-sdk>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/shotstack/shotstack-studio-sdk#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/shotstack/shotstack-studio-sdk/issues>)
