typora-with-plugin

LOW

maintainer fc-ibb105 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads Typora from download2.typoraio.cn, which is the official Chinese CDN for Typora (typoraio.cn is the official Chinese site for Typora). The plugin tarball is fetched via a GitHub proxy (github.moeyy.xyz), which is a common workaround for GitHub access issues in China — it proxies the official obgnail/typora_plugin release tarball. Both sources have sha512sums provided (though typora_plugin_sum is empty/blank, which is a concern but more of a 'broken' packaging issue than a security one). The commented-out activation bypass code is notable but is commented out and not executed, so it does not constitute active piracy. The overall pattern is a legitimate Chinese-market package using regional mirrors. The empty typora_plugin_sum means the plugin tarball has no integrity check, which is sloppy but the risk is low given it's a JS plugin injected into the Electron app's HTML — not a native binary. This is low severity: non-standard hosts but consistent with official vendor infrastructure for the Chinese market, and the missing checksum is a quality issue rather than an active attack.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 82%): The PKGBUILD downloads Typora from download2.typoraio.cn, which is the official Chinese CDN for Typora (typoraio.cn is the official Chinese site for Typora). The plugin tarball is fetched via a GitHub proxy (github.moeyy.xyz), which is a common workaround for GitHub access issues in China — it proxies the official obgnail/typora_plugin release tarball. Both sources have sha512sums provided (though typora_plugin_sum is empty/blank, which is a concern but more of a 'broken' packaging issue than a security one). The commented-out activation bypass code is notable but is commented out and not executed, so it does not constitute active piracy. The overall pattern is a legitimate Chinese-market package using regional mirrors. The empty typora_plugin_sum means the plugin tarball has no integrity check, which is sloppy but the risk is low given it's a JS plugin injected into the Electron app's HTML — not a native binary. This is low severity: non-standard hosts but consistent with official vendor infrastructure for the Chinese market, and the missing checksum is a quality issue rather than an active attack.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

Medium source=() URL on a non-standard host source_untrusted_domain

One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).

PKGBUILD:27 "https://download2.typoraio.cn/linux/$_filename"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1pkgname=typora-with-plugin
    
      2_pkgname=typora
    
      3_pluginame=typora_plugin
    
      4typora_ver=1.10.8
    
      5typora_plugin_ver=1.13.3
    
      6pkgver=${typora_ver}_plugin_${typora_plugin_ver}
    
      7pkgrel=1
    
      8pkgdesc="一款 Markdown 编辑器和阅读器（with typora_plugin）"
    
      9arch=('x86_64')
    
      10license=('custom:"Copyright (c) 2015 Abner Lee All Rights Reserved."')
    
      11url="https://typoraio.cn/"
    
      12github_proxy_url="https://github.moeyy.xyz"
    
      13depends=('gtk3' 'nss' 'alsa-lib')
    
      14provides=("$_pkgname")
    
      15conflicts=("$_pkgname")
    
      16optdepends=(
    
      17	'noto-fonts-emoji: Or some other emoji font to see emojis'
    
      18	'pandoc: Import/export for extra file formats')
    
      19backups=(
    
      20    'usr/share/typora/resources/plugin/global/settings/custom_plugin.user.toml'
    
      21    'usr/share/typora/resources/plugin/global/settings/hotkey.user.toml'
    
      22    'usr/share/typora/resources/plugin/global/settings/settings.user.toml'
    
      23    )
    
      24_filename="${_pkgname}_${typora_ver}_amd64.deb"
    
      25_pluginfilename="${_pluginame}-${typora_plugin_ver}"
    
      26source=(
    
      27    "https://download2.typoraio.cn/linux/$_filename"
    
      28    "$_pkgname.sh"
    
      29    "${github_proxy_url}/https://github.com/obgnail/typora_plugin/archive/refs/tags/${typora_plugin_ver}.tar.gz")
    
      30
    
      31typora_sum=dc08b3077388a9168854da0306b32d3153bda6df25c6aa21c061adc6cc8447a42e4368ddcc5ec24cb8b5906cb5342d096ff8efa550e8cd2eeed3683c3fcfb466
    
      32typora_plugin_sum=
    
      33sha512sums=(
    
      34    $typora_sum
    
      35    'de9c883c63f3ea35bd551c8761e605f8e1a3468943e000abcbf94bb0c5cbb5f0f6c7fa4d49ab39c177f167e0e3d0b061c861bf828627b4a34f7f1589119c3d04'
    
      36    $typora_plugin_sum
    
      37)
    
      38
    
      39_patch_plugin() {
    
      40  tar xvf ${typora_plugin_ver}.tar.gz -C "$pkgdir/"
    
      41  mv $pkgdir/$_pluginfilename/plugin $pkgdir/usr/share/typora/resources/
    
      42  rm -rf $pkgdir/${_pluginfilename}
    
      43  sed -i 's@\(frame.js" defer="defer"></script>\)@\1<script src="./plugin/index.js" defer="defer"></script>@g' $pkgdir/usr/share/typora/resources/window.html
    
      44}
    
      45
    
      46package() {
    
      47	export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
    
      48	# unpack archive
    
      49	bsdtar -xf data.tar.zst -C "$pkgdir/"
    
      50	_patch_plugin
    
      51	# remove lintian overrides
    
      52	rm -rf "$pkgdir/usr/share/lintian/"
    
      53	# replace bin link with custom launch script
    
      54	rm -rf "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$_pkgname"
    
      55	install -m755 "$srcdir/$_pkgname.sh" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$_pkgname"
    
      56	# move license to correct path
    
      57	install -Dm644 "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$_pkgname/copyright" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$_pkgname/LICENSE"
    
      58	# delete previous copyright path
    
      59	rm "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$_pkgname/copyright"
    
      60	# delete doc dir if empty
    
      61	rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$_pkgname" "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc"
    
      62	# remove change log from application comment
    
      63	sed -i '/Change Log/d' "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/typora.desktop"
    
      64	# fix permissions
    
      65	find "$pkgdir" -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
    
      66#	# activation
    
      67#	resources_dir=$pkgdir/usr/share/typora/resources
    
      68#	pd_dir=$resources_dir/page-dist
    
      69#	js_file=$pd_dir/static/js/LicenseIndex.180dd4c7.4da8909c.chunk.js
    
      70#	sed -i 's/e.hasActivated="true"==e.hasActivated/e.hasActivated="true"=="true"/g' "$js_file"
    
      71#	# remove activation window
    
      72#	license_html=$pd_dir/license.html
    
      73#	sed -i 's%</body></html>%</body><script>window.onload=function(){setTimeout(()=>{window.close();},5);}</script></html>%g' "$license_html"
    
      74#	# change unredistered notification
    
      75#	pannel_file=$resources_dir/locales/zh-Hans.lproj/Panel.json
    
      76#	sed -i 's/"UNREGISTERED":"未激活"/"UNREGISTERED":"已激活"/g' "$pannel_file"
    
      77#	#get permissions of user setting files
    
      78#	chmod 777 $resources_dir/plugin/global/settings/*.user.toml 
    
      79}
    
      80

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Low	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Low	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Low	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Low	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Low	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Low	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Low	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Low	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Low	2