Is Majestic Mountain Views safe?
Majestic Mountain Views sends every new-tab search query to landscape-extensions.com instead of your default search engine.
The extension's new-tab page has its own search box, but it never requests the 'search' permission needed to use the browser's built-in search engine. As a result, every query typed into it is redirected to landscape-extensions.com, tagged with the extension's own ID, rather than the search provider you have configured. This behavior is not mentioned in the extension's listing, and its linked privacy policy and terms pages are unfilled placeholder URLs.
Who publishes itSyndic8 - no other listings under this identity, 2 shared hostnames
Syndic8 - no other listings under this identity, 2 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 2 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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Findings
New-tab search box sends your typed queries to landscape-extensions.com first
Searches typed into this extension's new-tab page go to landscape-extensions.com, tagged with the extension's ID, before reaching a search engine.
This was observed during dynamic analysis.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-506
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
You type a search into the box on the new-tab page and press Enter.
Your tab goes to landscape-extensions.com with your query, not straight to a search engine.
The address includes the extension's own ID.
HTTP 302 redirecting to https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=example+query
Search fallback navigates to the third-party URL
Endpoint constant
assets/index-CzmwBIGu.jsconst Ke = "https://landscape-extensions.com/search?ext=ext_3tjvlkpa&q=",Submit handler
assets/index-CzmwBIGu.jstypeof chrome < "u" && chrome.search && chrome.search.query ? chrome.search.query({ text: s, disposition: "CURRENT_TAB"}) : typeof browser < "u" && browser.search && browser.search.search ? browser.search.search({ query: s}) : window.location.href = `${Ke}${encodeURIComponent(s)}`- Your search textcheap flights to denver
Whatever you type in the new-tab search box, sent to the third party.
- Extension tagext_3tjvlkpa
Ties each search to this extension's own product ID.
- landscape-extensions.com
Receives the query and extension ID, then redirects to a Yahoo results page.
- search.yahoo.com
Final results page after the redirect.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.1. 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 api.open-meteo.com
https://api.open-meteo.com/*
See, disable and uninstall your other extensions, including your security ones
management
Read your physical location
geolocation
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Majestic Mountain Views 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.
- landscape-extensions.com
Majestic Mountain Views sends data to landscape-extensions.com. 5 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.