Is Art Wallpapers New Tab safe?
Art Wallpapers New Tab sends typed new-tab search text to Mystart or SearchesSweet for search suggestions.
When you type in its new-tab search box, the extension reads the current input and requests autocomplete suggestions before you submit the search. Depending on the selected search path, it posts the query text to mystart.com/api/autosuggest/ or sends it to searchessweet.com/suggest.
Who publishes itArts Happen - no other listings under this identity, 5 shared hostnames
Arts Happen - no other listings under this identity, 5 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 5 hostnames
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
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Findings
New-tab search text is sent to suggestion endpoints before submission.
Typing in the Art Wallpapers New Tab search box can send that text to Mystart and SearchesSweet suggestion endpoints before you submit the search.
The data sent is form input, the typed search text used for suggestions.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-359
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
You type in the extension's new-tab search box.
The extension sends the typed search text to suggestion endpoints before the final search is submitted.
- Search box textweather tomorrow (illustrative)
Text you type in the extension's new-tab search box can be sent for suggestions before you submit the search.
Dynamic analysis confirmed that the new-tab override reads the search input and routes suggestion requests to the reported endpoints before the final search navigation.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.0.19. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Store data in your browser
storage
Read the sites you visit most
topSites
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Arts Happen contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- mystart.com
Arts Happen sends data to mystart.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- searchessweet.com
Arts Happen sends data to searchessweet.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.