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Recipe Search for Chrome™
Version 1.0.2709.0 View in Chrome Web Store
Last scanned: 13 days ago
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Extension Details
Developer:
thesqout.com
Rating:
4.8 ★
Size:
1.13MiB
Last Updated:
February 13, 2025
Users:
20,000
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 (20,000), which suggests some level of trust from the user community.
- The developer's website (thesqout.com) appears to be a legitimate domain, although there is no additional information provided about the company or developer.
Concerns:
- The extension requests several high-risk permissions, such as tabs, webRequest, and cookies, which could potentially be misused to compromise security and privacy.
- The broad <all_urls> host permission raises concerns about the extension's ability to access and potentially track browsing activity across all websites.
- The extension's description is vague and does not provide sufficient context for the requested permissions.
Recommendations:
- Exercise caution when installing this extension, as it has been flagged as a high-risk extension due to its broad permissions and potential security implications.
- Consider running the extension in a separate Chrome profile or a sandboxed environment to isolate it from your main browsing activity.
- Closely monitor the extension's behavior and network activity for any suspicious activities.
- If possible, seek alternative extensions from reputable developers that offer similar functionality with fewer permissions or better transparency about their data handling practices.
- Regularly review and remove any unnecessary extensions from your browser to minimize potential security risks.
Security Analysis
This section provides a detailed analysis of the extension's security posture, without broader context. Assumes worst-case impact.
CRITICAL
Overall Risk
Based on 7 total findings, ranked without considering overall context, including 4 high-risk and 3 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.
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: 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: webRequest
This extension has the webRequest permission. Can intercept and modify web requests. This could potentially be used maliciously to compromise security or privacy.
MEDIUM
Medium-Risk Permission: contextMenus
This extension has the contextMenus permission. Can add items to the context menu.
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.
Security Analysis Details
Required Permissions:
- contextMenus
- tabs
- scripting
- storage
- alarms
- webRequest
- notifications
- idle
- cookies
Host Permissions:
- <all_urls>
Content Security Policy:
- extension_pages: script-src 'self'; object-src 'self'
Embedded URLs (21 total):
| https://searchsqout.com | https://thesqout.com | |
| https://ext.searchsqout.com | https://ext.sqouterr.com | |
| https://thesqout.com/feedback.html | http://unknow.com | |
| https://ext.searchsqout.com/src/background.js.fcc9bcac443a469c92e1.map | https://ext.searchsqout.com/src/style.css.fcc9bcac443a469c92e1.map | |
| https://npms.io/search?q=ponyfill. | 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/1999/xhtml | http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML | |
| http://www.w3.org/2000/svg | https://github.com/webpack-contrib/style-loader#insertat | |
| https://ext.searchsqout.com/src/index.js.fcc9bcac443a469c92e1.map | https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx | |
| https://ext.searchsqout.com/api/ext/suggest?sqrs&q= | https://search.searchsqout.com/?dsq&yh&sqrs&q= | |
| https://searchsqout.com/extfavicon.ico |
Raw Manifest
{ "name": "Recipe Search for Chrome™", "icons": { "16": "icons/icon16.png", "48": "icons/icon48.png", "128": "icons/icon128.png" }, "action": { "default_icon": { "16": "icons/icon16.png", "48": "icons/icon48.png", "128": "icons/icon128.png" }, "default_popup": "popup.html", "default_title": "Recipe Search for Chrome™" }, "version": "1.0.2709.0", "background": { "service_worker": "background.js" }, "short_name": "Recipe Search for Chrome™", "update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "description": "Effortlessly search for recipes.", "permissions": [ "contextMenus", "tabs", "scripting", "storage", "alarms", "webRequest", "notifications", "idle", "cookies" ], "host_permissions": [ "<all_urls>" ], "manifest_version": 3, "content_security_policy": { "extension_pages": "script-src 'self'; object-src 'self'" }, "web_accessible_resources": [ { "matches": [ "<all_urls>" ], "resources": [ "wa.png" ], "extension_ids": [] } ], "chrome_settings_overrides": { "search_provider": { "name": "sQout", "keyword": "sQout", "encoding": "UTF-8", "is_default": true, "search_url": "https://search.searchsqout.com/?dsq&yh&sqrs&q={searchTerms}", "favicon_url": "https://searchsqout.com/extfavicon.ico", "instant_url": "", "suggest_url": "https://ext.searchsqout.com/api/ext/suggest?sqrs&q={searchTerms}", "alternate_urls": [], "search_url_post_params": "", "instant_url_post_params": "", "suggest_url_post_params": "" } } }
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