Is Automate Bing Searches Rewards safe?
Automate Bing Searches Rewards sends default and automated search queries to howtodowork.com.
The extension sets Chrome's default search provider to a howtodowork.com search endpoint, so omnibox searches are sent there instead of Bing. When the popup Start button is clicked, it also opens repeated tabs to the same endpoint using a bundled list of commercial search terms.
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Findings
Start button opens repeated howtodowork.com search tabs
Clicking Start in the popup makes Automate Bing Searches Rewards open repeated tabs to the howtodowork.com search endpoint, using commercial search terms it picks from a bundled list.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-506
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
The user clicks Start in the extension popup and provides a repeat count.
The extension repeatedly opens tabs to howtodowork.com using commercial search terms from a bundled list.
- Generated search URLhttps://www.howtodowork.com/wp-json/wl/v2/search?q=shopping%20deals (illustrative)
The opened URL carries the selected search term to the howtodowork.com search endpoint.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.0.7. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Automate Bing Searches Rewards 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.
- www.howtodowork.com
Automate Bing Searches Rewards sends data to www.howtodowork.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.