Is MasterCook safe?

Medium risk

MasterCook stores remembered account passwords in local storage using reversible AES with a hardcoded key.

When a user chooses to stay logged in, MasterCook saves the account password in localStorage after encrypting it with AES-CBC using a key and IV embedded in the extension bundle. Anyone who can read that stored extension data can recover the saved password. The extension UI also fetches remote offer configuration over cleartext HTTP from 3.215.157.108:807.

Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.

ValuSoft Finance LLCv3.0.7Chrome Web Store
40Risk
Who publishes it

MasterCook - no other listings under this identity

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Publisher
ValuSoft Finance LLC
Declared legal entity
MasterCook
Registered address
1613 Chelsea Rd. #260, San Marino, CA 91108, USA
Registered contact
Pam Erickson

AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.

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What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.0.7. 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 www.mastercook.com

    https://www.mastercook.com/

  • Read and change your data on staging.mastercook.com

    https://staging.mastercook.com/ and 1 more

  • Read and change your data on qa.mastercook.com

    https://qa.mastercook.com/ and 1 more

  • Read and change your data on api.mastercook.com

    http://api.mastercook.com/ and 1 more

  • Read and change your data on every site you visit

    http://*/

  • Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension

    activeTab

  • Add items to the right-click menu

    contextMenus

  • Write to your clipboard

    clipboardWrite

  • Read whatever you have copied to your clipboard

    clipboardRead

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed MasterCook 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.

  • 3.215.157.108:807

    MasterCook sends data to 3.215.157.108:807. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.

Updated 30 September 2026cjlemnmgimcdhhaphaecileladgedmhf