Is CATS Extension safe?

Clean risk

CATS Extension's bug-report feature can send the full HTML of the active recruiting page to a third-party upload endpoint.

When you open the extension's report panel and click Send Report, it transmits scrape statistics and, if the 'send-page-data' checkbox is left on (it defaults to checked), the complete outerHTML of the recruiting page you are viewing. The upload goes to an AWS Lambda endpoint authenticated with an API key hardcoded in the extension. This egress only happens on that explicit user action, not automatically in the background.

CATS Applicant Trackingv3.4.57Chrome Web Store
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Who publishes it

Top Echelon - no other listings under this identity, 1 shared hostname

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

Publisher
CATS Applicant Tracking
Declared legal entity
Top Echelon
Registered address
4883 Dressler Road, N.W., Ste. 100, Canton, OH 44718, US
Registered contact
Steve Gagnon

Shared hosts - 1 hostname

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.

manage.monster.com
Also called by 2 other listings, including PCR Capture

AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.

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Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed CATS 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.

  • jth23s24mk.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

    CATS Extension sends data to jth23s24mk.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com. No other extension we have analyzed sends data here.

Updated 30 September 2026elhkfmcodhgaoodhemkeempcihlcbpia