---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codeplay-common/v/4.7.7"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codeplay-common/v/4.7.7.md"
package: "codeplay-common"
report_status: "published"
title: "codeplay-common@4.7.7 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "4.7.7"
---

# codeplay-common@4.7.7 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as AI-agent capability risk** — Allowed by default with warning: agent-facing configuration or capability changes need review before use.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only AI-agent capability risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** AI-agent capability abuse
- **Selected version:** 4.7.7
- **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.

The source supports a warning for automatic project agent-instruction replacement during builds. The behavior is package-service aligned and not directly triggered by the install hooks, so the inspected evidence does not establish a publish-blocking attack.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 84.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-19T10:29:26.186Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-19T10:30:43.920Z
- **Download time:** 512 ms
- **Static scan time:** 659 ms
- **AI review time:** 76562 ms
- **Total time:** 77734 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:** The project build script automatically refreshes vendor-provided agent instructions in the project root. This creates a residual agent-control risk because the update replaces existing instruction files without a separate confirmation.

- **Trigger:** The project’s build command runs after postinstall has wired in the copied build script, and the remote instruction version is newer.

- **Impact:** The remote service can change instructions consumed by project agents; the inspected source does not reveal the archive contents.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/sync-files.js, files/buildCodeplay/codeplayBeforeBuild-6.4.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-19T10:30:43.920Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The script fetches a versioned archive from htmlcodeplay.com, then replaces AGENTS.md and recursively replaces the AGENTS directory with archive contents.

- **Rationale:** The source supports a warning for automatic project agent-instruction replacement during builds. The behavior is package-service aligned and not directly triggered by the install hooks, so the inspected evidence does not establish a publish-blocking attack.

- **Files touched:** AGENTS.md, AGENTS/

- **Network endpoints:** https://htmlcodeplay.com/code-play-plugin/${zipName}

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 84.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The install hooks run cleanup and project synchronization scripts., The postinstall sync copies package files into the project and wires the copied build script into the project’s build command., When that build script runs, it calls the agent-instructions updater, which proceeds only if the remote version is newer., The updater downloads an archive from htmlcodeplay.com and replaces the project’s AGENTS.md and AGENTS directory with its contents.

- **Evidence against:** The updater is reached through the project build command, not directly through the install hooks., The archive host matches the package’s own service domain; the inspected source does not establish what the downloaded instructions contain.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to codeplay-common@4.7.7.

- Review the evidence and your use of codeplay-common@4.7.7 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeplay-common@4.7.7/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.preinstall = node scripts/uninstall.js
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** files/generate-ai-promo-video.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeplay-common@4.7.7/files/generate-ai-promo-video.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L17: const { createHash } = require('node:crypto');
L18: const { spawnSync } = require('node:child_process');
L19: const { createInterface } = require('node:readline/promises');
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** scripts/sync-files.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeplay-common@4.7.7/scripts/sync-files.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: const fs = require("fs");
L2: const path = require("path");
```

### 6. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** files/generate-ai-promo-video.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeplay-common@4.7.7/files/generate-ai-promo-video.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L17: const { createHash } = require('node:crypto');
L18: const { spawnSync } = require('node:child_process');
L19: const { createInterface } = require('node:readline/promises');
L20: 
L21: const projectDirectory = __dirname;
L22: const capacitorConfigPath = path.join(projectDirectory, 'capacitor.config.json');
L23: const capacitorConfig = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(capacitorConfigPath, 'utf8'));
L24: const appName = String(capacitorConfig.appName || '').trim();
...
L41: const appFilePrefix = `${appUniqueId}. ${sanitizeFileNamePart(appName)}`;
L42: const playStoreDownloadUrl = `https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=${encodeURIComponent(packageId)}`;
L43: const configuredAppStoreUrl = String(iosStoreConfig.appStoreUrl || '')
...
L88: const promoCopyResultPath = path.join(temporaryDir
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

### 8. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 10. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** files/buildCodeplay/codeplayBeforeBuild-6.4.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeplay-common@4.7.7/files/buildCodeplay/codeplayBeforeBuild-6.4.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L137: try {
L138: execSync(`npm install ${packageName}`, { stdio: "inherit" });
L139: console.log(`✅ "${packageName}" installed successfully.`);
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 13. 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.

### 14. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** files/buildCodeplay/setSplashAnimation-1.4.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeplay-common@4.7.7/files/buildCodeplay/setSplashAnimation-1.4.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_parse_error; limitedFiles = 3
```

### 15. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** files/iap-install-2.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeplay-common@4.7.7/files/iap-install-2.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = codeplay-common@4.4.6
matchedPath = files/iap-install-2.js
matchedIdentity = npm:Y29kZXBsYXktY29tbW9u:4.4.6
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 16. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** files/buildCodeplay/manifestModification.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeplay-common@4.7.7/files/buildCodeplay/manifestModification.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = codeplay-common@4.4.6
matchedPath = [redacted].js
matchedIdentity = npm:Y29kZXBsYXktY29tbW9u:4.4.6
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** files/scripts/setup-baseline-profile.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeplay-common@4.7.7/files/scripts/setup-baseline-profile.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = codeplay-common@4.4.6
matchedPath = files/scripts/setup-baseline-profile.js
matchedIdentity = npm:Y29kZXBsYXktY29tbW9u:4.4.6
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** files/buildCodeplay/codeplayBeforeBuild-6.4.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeplay-common@4.7.7/files/buildCodeplay/codeplayBeforeBuild-6.4.js>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = codeplay-common@4.4.7
matchedIdentity = npm:Y29kZXBsYXktY29tbW9u:4.4.7
similarity = 0.529
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, preinstall
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** codeplay-common
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 4.7.7
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-07T06:34:52.746Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-04T11:12:22.441Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-22T12:40:42.055Z
- **Known versions:** 53
- **Latest version:** 4.9.9
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Common build scripts and files
- **Author:** Codeplay Technologies
- **Maintainers:** merbin2012
- **Artifact files:** 32
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 574,122 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codeplay-common/v/4.7.7>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/merbin2012/codeplay-common>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/merbin2012/codeplay-common#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/merbin2012/codeplay-common/issues>)
