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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/react-photo-frame/v/3.0.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/react-photo-frame/v/3.0.3.md"
package: "react-photo-frame"
report_status: "published"
title: "react-photo-frame@3.0.3 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "3.0.3"
---

# react-photo-frame@3.0.3 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 9 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Destructive Action
- **Selected version:** 3.0.3
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Importing and mounting the component starts a hidden remote licence check. A remote revocation result can make the component attempt to replace the host document root.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-04T16:53:07.070Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-04T16:53:50.859Z
- **Download time:** 259 ms
- **Static scan time:** 47 ms
- **AI review time:** 43482 ms
- **Total time:** 43789 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Importing and mounting the component starts a hidden remote licence check. A remote revocation result can make the component attempt to replace the host document root.

- **Trigger:** A React application mounts the default PhotoFrame component.

- **Impact:** A third-party endpoint can cause the consumer page to fail or be disrupted.

- **Evidence paths:** index.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-04T16:53:50.859Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Remote licence kill switch with document-root replacement.

- **Rationale:** The package has no install hook or data-exfiltration path, but its obfuscated runtime code contains an undisclosed remote kill switch that can disrupt the host page. This is a concrete runtime risk requiring a warning, not enough evidence of malware.

- **Files touched:** index.js

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.npoint.io/f63d2269d3d045f8cdc3

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** The obfuscated browser entrypoint performs a remote licence-revocation check on component mount., A revoked or invalid licence causes the component to replace the document root, which can break the host application., The advertised photo-frame package does not disclose its hidden remote licensing and page-disruption behaviour.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no lifecycle scripts, executable bin, or install-time hook., The inspected code contains no child-process use, credential harvesting, filesystem access, or payload execution., The network request is used for a licence-revocation list and is cached in browser IndexedDB.

## Public findings

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

Package source references network APIs.

### 2. High: Obfuscated Payload Loader
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/react-photo-frame@3.0.3/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: const _0x5de676=_0x2faa;(function(_0x4308c7,_0x241043){const _0x5e53b4=_0x2faa,_0x340f4b=_0x4308c7();while(!![]){try{const _0x2c0e61=parseInt(_0x5e53b4(0x1bf))/0x1*(-parseInt(_0x5e...
```

### 3. High: Obfuscated
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package source appears deliberately obfuscated.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 6. 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.

### 7. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 8. Medium: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/react-photo-frame@3.0.3/package.json>)

The advertised photo-frame package does not disclose its hidden remote licensing and page-disruption behaviour.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"name": "react-photo-frame",
  "version": "3.0.3",
  "description": "Give it a frame design and a photo, and it draws the photo inside the frame's border on a canvas, then hands back the combined image as a data URL.",
  "type": "module",
```

### 9. Medium: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Path:** license/verify.d.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/react-photo-frame@3.0.3/license/verify.d.ts>)

The obfuscated browser entrypoint performs a remote licence-revocation check on component mount.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
/**
 * Full check: signature + expiry, then a lookup against REVOKED_LIST_URL —
 * a base64-encoded JSON array of revoked key IDs. No server/database
 * needed. The result is cached in IndexedDB for REVOCATION_CACHE_TTL_MS so
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 1
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- react \>=18 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** react-photo-frame
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 3.0.3
- **Version published:** 2026-09-04T16:32:18.916Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-04T16:53:50.859Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-05T04:33:03.415Z
- **Known versions:** 4
- **Latest version:** 3.0.6
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Give it a frame design and a photo, and it draws the photo inside the frame's border on a canvas, then hands back the combined image as a data URL.
- **Author:** Learn React Code
- **Maintainers:** learnreactcode
- **Keywords:** Photo, Frame, React, photo, Frame
- **Artifact files:** 5
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 29,731 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/react-photo-frame/v/3.0.3>)
