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Extension Details
Rating:
4.8 ★
(1.1K ratings)
Size:
78.93KiB
Last Updated:
January 30, 2025
Users:
100,000
Context-Aware Verdict
This section provides a Claude-based AI analysis that applies additional context to the risk. Results are not guaranteed to be accurate.
HIGH
Risk Level
Trust Factors:
- The extension has a relatively high number of users (100,000), which could indicate some level of trust.
- The rating is quite high (4.8/5), suggesting that users generally find the extension useful and trustworthy.
- However, there is no information provided about the author or developer, which reduces transparency and makes it harder to assess their reputation.
Concerns:
- The extension requests the "storage" permission, which allows it to store data locally. While this permission is not inherently concerning, it could potentially be misused to store sensitive user data.
- More importantly, the extension has broad host permissions (<all_urls>), allowing it to access and potentially interact with any website the user visits. This broad access could enable the extension to track browsing activity or even steal sensitive data from websites.
Recommendations:
- Exercise caution when installing this extension, as the broad host permissions pose a significant privacy and security risk.
- If you decide to use the extension, consider running it in a separate browser profile or a sandboxed environment to limit its potential impact on your main browsing session.
- Regularly review the extension's permissions and behavior, and uninstall it if you notice any suspicious activity or data collection.
- Look for alternative extensions with similar functionality but more limited and transparent permissions, preferably from reputable developers.
Security Analysis
This section provides a detailed analysis of the extension's security posture, without broader context. Assumes worst-case impact.
MEDIUM
Overall Risk
Based on 2 total findings, ranked without considering overall context, including 1 high-risk and 1 medium-risk findings.
HIGH
Broad Host Permissions
This extension has broad host permissions allowing it to access many or all websites. This could potentially be used to steal sensitive data or track browsing activity.
MEDIUM
Medium-Risk Permission: storage
This extension has the storage permission. Can store data locally.
Security Analysis Details
Required Permissions:
- storage
Host Permissions:
- <all_urls>
Embedded URLs (14 total):
| https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx | https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Rubik:ital | |
| http://fb.me/use-check-prop-types | https://reactjs.org/docs/error-decoder.html?invariant= | |
| http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink | http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace | |
| http://www.w3.org/2000/svg | http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML | |
| http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml | https://fb.me/react-async-component-lifecycle-hooks | |
| https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ffejlioijcokmblckiijnjcmfidjppdn/reviews | https://git.io/JUIaE# | |
| https://autorefreshplus.in/privacy | https://autorefreshplus.in |
Raw Manifest
{ "name": "Auto Refresh Plus", "icons": { "32": "icon128.png", "64": "icon128.png", "128": "icon128.png" }, "action": { "default_popup": "index.html", "default_title": " Auto Refresh Plus" }, "version": "2.2.1", "background": { "service_worker": "background.js" }, "update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "description": "Auto Refresh Plus automatically refresh and reload any page or tab after a specified number of seconds", "permissions": [ "storage" ], "host_permissions": [ "<all_urls>" ], "manifest_version": 3 }
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