Is Easy YouTube Video Downloader safe?
Easy YouTube Video Downloader is high risk. Opening the popup auto-loads a downloader widget from loader.to. The widget URL includes an ad destination, and the request can expose your IP address, headers, and referrer to the remote service.…
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Findings
Popup opens a downloader widget with an ad URL on user action.
Opening the popup auto-loads a downloader widget from loader.to.
The widget URL includes an ad destination, and the request can expose your IP address, headers, and referrer to the remote service.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-506
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
The user opens the extension popup.
The popup loads a downloader widget configured with an ad URL.
- Your IP address203.0.113.24 (illustrative)
Identifies the network location that opened the popup widget.
- Request headersUser-Agent: Chrome/126.0 (illustrative)
Provide browser and request context sent with the widget load.
- Referrerchrome-extension://<extension-id>/popup.html (illustrative)
Shows the page context that initiated the widget request.
Observed during dynamic analysis: the extension has no content scripts, so this finding is limited to the popup widget flow rather than browsing-page collection.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0. 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 secure site you visit
https://*/*
Read and change your data on every site you visit
http://*/*
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
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