Is CNET Shopping safe?
CNET Shopping lets web pages open attacker-chosen URLs through its broad page message listener.
CNET Shopping injects a content script across HTTP and HTTPS pages that accepts page messages and asks the background script to open supplied URLs in inactive tabs. Its remote retailer rules can also detect checkout confirmation pages, extract order IDs, and send them with the confirmation page URL to CNET Shopping.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itCNET Shopping - no other listings under this identity, 8 shared hostnames
CNET Shopping - no other listings under this identity, 8 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 8 hostnames
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.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 14.33. 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
http://*/ and 1 more
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Store data in your browser
storage
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed CNET Shopping 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.
- shopping.cnet.com
CNET Shopping sends data to shopping.cnet.com. No other extension we have analyzed sends data here.