Is Direct Paper Importer safe?
Direct Paper Importer embeds a Mendeley OAuth client secret and sends it to Mendeley during sign-in and token refresh.
Direct Paper Importer includes a hardcoded Mendeley OAuth client ID and secret in its background script. When you sign in or when the extension refreshes an existing session, it sends those credentials to Mendeley's OAuth token endpoint as HTTP Basic authentication.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.1.2. 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 every site you visit
*://*/*/
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Sign you in with your Google account
identity
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Direct Paper Importer 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.
- api.mendeley.com
Direct Paper Importer sends data to api.mendeley.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.