Is BestWallpaper NewTab Extension safe?

Medium risk

BestWallpaper NewTab Extension sends new-tab search queries to best.bestwpnew-tab.com with a fixed affiliate tracking ID.

When you type a search into the extension's new-tab search box, it navigates the browser to best.bestwpnew-tab.com with the query in the URL. The request also includes the fixed tracking parameter tid=1000815.

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Who publishes it

adroadpass - no other listings under this identity

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Publisher
adroadpass
Website
adsroadpass.com/Contacts/

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Findings

New-tab searches are sent to best.bestwpnew-tab.com with affiliate tracking.

When you type a search into the extension's new-tab search box, the extension redirects that query to best.bestwpnew-tab.com.

The request includes the entered search text and the fixed affiliate tracking parameter tid=1000815.

Severity
Medium unwanted
Type
Unexpected
CWE
CWE-359
Source
Dynamic sandbox
What actually happens
You did this

The user submits a search from the extension's new-tab page.

The extension did this

The extension redirects the typed query to best.bestwpnew-tab.com with tid=1000815.

Captured request
GEThttps://best.bestwpnew-tab.com/?tid=1000815&q=
Fields in the request
  • Search query
    weather tomorrow (illustrative)

    This is the text entered into the new-tab search form and forwarded as the q parameter.

What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.2. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.

  • Read and change your data on bestwpnew-tab.com.com

    *://*.bestwpnew-tab.com.com/*

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed BestWallpaper NewTab Extension 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.

  • best.bestwpnew-tab.com

    BestWallpaper NewTab Extension sends data to best.bestwpnew-tab.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.

Updated 30 September 2026jhdconbmbbefinocmnmpnokfilhmhplg