---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tabwright"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tabwright/v/3.3.0.md"
package: "tabwright"
report_status: "published"
title: "tabwright@3.3.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "3.3.0"
---

# tabwright@3.3.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 13 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 3.3.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

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.

Static analysis flagged 13 finding(s) at 72.0% confidence. This version is warn-only unless an AI or security-team review confirms malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 72.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-08T11:12:00.644Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-08T11:12:04.550Z
- **Download time:** 517 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3833 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 3906 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

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to tabwright@3.3.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of tabwright@3.3.0 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tabwright@3.3.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node postinstall.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tabwright@3.3.0/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node postinstall.js
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** dist/selector-generator.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tabwright@3.3.0/dist/selector-generator.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5841: }
L5842: eval(expression) {
L5843: return this.window.eval(expression);
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/executor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tabwright@3.3.0/dist/executor.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L33: const __dirname = path.dirname(__filename);
L34: const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
L35: export class CodeExecutionTimeoutError extends Error {
```

### 6. Medium: Unsafe Vm Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 68.0%
- **Path:** dist/executor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tabwright@3.3.0/dist/executor.js>)

Package source executes code through a VM context API.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L32: const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
L33: const __dirname = path.dirname(__filename);
L34: const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
...
L46: URL,
L47: URLSearchParams,
L48: fetch,
...
L50: TextEncoder,
L51: TextDecoder,
L52: crypto,
...
L123: const EXTENSION_NOT_CONNECTED_ERROR = `The Tabwright Chrome extension is not connected. Make sure you have:
L124: 1. Installed the extension: https://chromewebstore.google.[redacted]
L125: 2. Clicked the extension icon on a tab to enable it (or refreshed the page if just installed)
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 11. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

### 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.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 19
- **Optional dependencies:** 2
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 15
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 21

### Published dependency entries
- @hono/node-server ^1.19.6 (Dependency)
- @hono/node-ws ^1.2.0 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.29.0 (Dependency)
- @xmorse/playwright-core ^1.59.10 (Dependency)
- acorn ^8.15.0 (Dependency)
- async-sema ^3.1.1 (Dependency)
- better-auth ^1.6.20 (Dependency)
- diff ^8.0.2 (Dependency)
- dom-accessibility-api ^0.7.1 (Dependency)
- goke ^6.12.1 (Dependency)
- hono ^4.12.12 (Dependency)
- picocolors ^1.1.1 (Dependency)
- posthtml ^0.16.7 (Dependency)
- posthtml-beautify ^0.7.0 (Dependency)
- string-dedent ^3.0.2 (Dependency)
- strip-ansi ^7.1.2 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.18.3 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.3.5 (Dependency)
- zustand ^5.0.8 (Dependency)
- @playwriter/patchright-core ^1.61.0-playwriter.1 (OptionalDependency)
- sharp ^0.34.5 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** tabwright
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 3.3.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-08-06T08:02:23.489Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-08T11:12:04.550Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-12T15:56:23.602Z
- **Known versions:** 4
- **Latest version:** 4.1.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Turn signed-in browser workflows into portable, verified Agent Skills.
- **Author:** Yuyang Hou
- **Maintainers:** yuyang-hou
- **Keywords:** browser-automation, chrome, mcp, playwright, ai-agent, agent-skills, workflow-automation
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 173
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,913,728 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tabwright/v/3.3.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Yuyang-Hou/tabwright>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/Yuyang-Hou/tabwright#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Yuyang-Hou/tabwright/issues>)
