Is Messenger Central safe?
Messenger Central sends new-tab search queries to srchms.com with a fixed affiliate identifier.
It replaces the browser's new tab page with its own search form. When a user submits a query there, the extension navigates to srchms.com and includes the query plus a fixed affiliate parameter in the URL.
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Findings
New-tab searches are sent to srchms.com with an affiliate ID.
When you use Messenger Central's new-tab search box, the extension sends the text you entered to srchms.com along with a fixed affiliate identifier.
This occurs from the extension's own new-tab page after you submit a search.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-359
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
The user submits a search from the extension's new-tab page.
The extension navigates to srchms.com with the entered query and a fixed affiliate identifier in the URL.
- Your search queryweather forecast (illustrative)
The words typed into the new-tab search box are sent to the remote search endpoint.
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Messenger Central 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.
- srchms.com
Messenger Central sends data to srchms.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.