Is Mendeley Web Importer safe?
This security report analyses whether Mendeley Web Importer is safe to install on your browser. We check Mendeley Web Importer for malicious behaviour, data exfiltration, suspicious permissions, and known vulnerabilities so you can decide if Mendeley Web Importer is safe for your personal or enterprise fleet.
Mendeley Web Importer is a clean, legitimate browser extension developed by Elsevier for academic reference management. All flagged patterns are false positives: www.ibm.com and www.w3.org are DTD/XML namespace string constants in the parse5 HTML parser library (not network endpoints), the postMessage listener has proper same-origin validation, and IP address collection via api.ipify.org is for standard Adobe Analytics tracking. The extension exhibits expected behavior for a reference management tool with no malicious code or data exfiltration beyond standard SaaS telemetry sent to Elsevier infrastructure.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
Publishers can request a review.