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Secure Exam Proctor

Version 1.5.26051.73 View in Chrome Web Store

Last scanned: about 9 hours ago

Extension Details

Developer: proctorio.com
Rating: 1.1 ★ (5.6K ratings)
Users: 4,000,000

Context-Aware Verdict

CRITICAL
Overall Risk
Trust Factors:

The extension is developed by Proctorio, a legitimate company in the online exam proctoring industry with 4 million users, indicating widespread institutional adoption. However, the extremely low rating of 1.1 out of 5 stars from 5,600+ reviews is a major red flag, suggesting significant user dissatisfaction with the extension's behavior or functionality.

Concerns:

The extension requests an excessive number of highly invasive permissions that create a comprehensive surveillance capability. Key concerns include system monitoring permissions (CPU, memory, storage, display), desktop capture for screen recording, geolocation tracking, proxy control that can redirect all internet traffic, and management permissions that allow control over other extensions. The broad host permissions grant access to all websites, while unsafe WebAssembly execution could hide malicious code. The combination of these permissions essentially creates a complete system monitoring and control toolkit that far exceeds what's typically necessary for exam proctoring.

Recommendations:

Given the critical risk level, only use this extension when absolutely required by educational institutions and in a dedicated Chrome profile isolated from personal browsing. Immediately remove the extension after exam completion. Be aware that it can monitor virtually all computer activity during use. Students should verify the extension is legitimately required by their institution and understand the extensive monitoring capabilities they're consenting to. Consider using a separate computer or virtual machine if possible for exams requiring this extension.

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.
HIGH
High-Risk Permission: clipboardWrite
This extension has the clipboardWrite permission. Can modify clipboard content. This could potentially be used maliciously to compromise security or privacy.
HIGH
High-Risk Permission: cookies
This extension has the cookies permission. Can access and modify browser cookies. This could potentially be used maliciously to compromise security or privacy.
HIGH
High-Risk Permission: downloads
This extension has the downloads permission. Can download files and access download history. This could potentially be used maliciously to compromise security or privacy.
HIGH
High-Risk Permission: management
This extension has the management permission. Can manage other extensions. This could potentially be used maliciously to compromise security or privacy.
HIGH
High-Risk Permission: privacy
This extension has the privacy permission. Can modify privacy settings. This could potentially be used maliciously to compromise security or privacy.
HIGH
High-Risk Permission: proxy
This extension has the proxy permission. Can control proxy settings. This could potentially be used maliciously to compromise security or privacy.
HIGH
High-Risk Permission: tabs
This extension has the tabs permission. Can access browser tab information and manipulate tabs. This could potentially be used maliciously to compromise security or privacy.
HIGH
High-Risk Permission: webNavigation
This extension has the webNavigation permission. Can track your web navigation. This could potentially be used maliciously to compromise security or privacy.
HIGH
High-Risk Permission: webRequest
This extension has the webRequest permission. Can intercept and modify web requests. This could potentially be used maliciously to compromise security or privacy.
HIGH
Unsafe WebAssembly Execution
This extension's Content Security Policy allows 'wasm-unsafe-eval', which permits potentially dangerous WebAssembly code execution. This could be used to hide malicious code or perform CPU-intensive operations.
MEDIUM
Medium-Risk Permission: geolocation
This extension has the geolocation permission. Can access your location.
MEDIUM
Medium-Risk Permission: notifications
This extension has the notifications permission. Can show notifications.
MEDIUM
Medium-Risk Permission: storage
This extension has the storage permission. Can store data locally.
MEDIUM
Medium-Risk Permission: unlimitedStorage
This extension has the unlimitedStorage permission. Can store unlimited data locally.
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