---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tailwindcss-form-styles/v/0.5.12"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tailwindcss-form-styles/v/0.5.12.md"
package: "tailwindcss-form-styles"
report_status: "published"
title: "tailwindcss-form-styles@0.5.12 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.5.12"
---

# tailwindcss-form-styles@0.5.12 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Passed — safe to install** — No malicious behavior detected. 6 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.5.12
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

No confirmed malicious attack surface was found. The package exports a Tailwind styling plugin and has no install-time lifecycle command.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-27T10:21:56.173Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-27T10:22:33.734Z
- **Download time:** 251 ms
- **Static scan time:** 51 ms
- **AI review time:** 37258 ms
- **Total time:** 37561 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** No confirmed malicious attack surface was found. The package exports a Tailwind styling plugin and has no install-time lifecycle command.

- **Trigger:** A user configures Tailwind to load the plugin.

- **Impact:** Applies local styling rules only; no credential access, network request, persistence, or destructive action was found.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, src/index.js, scripts/release-channel.js, scripts/release-notes.js, tailwind.config.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-27T10:22:33.734Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Registers CSS form-control style rules through the Tailwind plugin API.

- **Rationale:** Source inspection found a CSS-focused Tailwind plugin with no lifecycle hooks, network behavior, shell execution, payload loading, or data collection. The environment-variable and file-read findings are limited to explicitly invoked release helpers.

- **Files touched:** package.json, src/index.js, scripts/release-channel.js, scripts/release-notes.js

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** The manifest has no npm lifecycle hook; its entry point is src/index.js., The entry point only registers Tailwind form-style rules and exports the plugin., The release helper scripts only parse a version or read CHANGELOG.md when explicitly run.

- **Evidence against:** Release helper scripts reference an npm version environment variable and one reads a local changelog, but neither is install-triggered or performs network or write operations., The apparent URLs are documentation references and SVG namespace data, not runtime network requests.

## Public findings

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

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 5. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** scripts/release-notes.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss-form-styles@0.5.12/scripts/release-notes.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 = tailwind-custom-templates@0.7.2
matchedPath = scripts/release-notes.js
matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:0.7.2
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 6. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** scripts/release-channel.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss-form-styles@0.5.12/scripts/release-channel.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 = tailwind-custom-templates@0.7.2
matchedPath = scripts/release-channel.js
matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:0.7.2
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

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

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** tailwindcss-form-styles
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.5.12
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-26T19:44:34.026Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-27T10:22:26.868Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-27T19:15:04.917Z
- **Known versions:** 4
- **Latest version:** 0.5.15
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tailwindcss-form-styles/v/0.5.12>)