Is mdpi_home safe?
mdpi_home stores your MDPI login token in a non-secure cookie and renders notifications into active pages.
When you log in, mdpi_home posts credentials to home.mdpi.cn and stores the returned login token in a cookie for http://home.mdpi.cn without Secure or HttpOnly protection. After login, it fetches MDPI notifications once per minute and sends their titles, details, and the token to the active tab, rendering them in an open shadow DOM that page scripts can read.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.1.5. 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
*://*/*
Store data in your browser
storage
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed mdpi_home 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.
- home.mdpi.cn
mdpi_home sends data to home.mdpi.cn. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.