Is CNN U.S. safe?
CNN U.S. inserts news feed content from notifiernews.com into its popup using unescaped HTML.
The extension periodically fetches a news feed from notifiernews.com/cnn_us/feed and stores it locally. When the popup is opened, each feed item's title, author, tag, and annotation text is substituted into an HTML template and written into the page with innerHTML, without escaping angle brackets or quotes. Because the substitution is unescaped, any HTML or script markup present in a feed item would run in the popup exactly as sent by that server.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.01. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed CNN News 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.
- notifiernews.com
CNN News sends data to notifiernews.com. 3 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.