Is Nature background pictures new tab safe?
Nature background pictures new tab sends new-tab search terms to direct.searchontop.com with publisher identifiers.
The extension replaces the browser's new-tab page with a search form. When a user submits a search there, it opens direct.searchontop.com with the typed search term in the query string and fixed publisherid and barcodeid values.
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Findings
New-tab searches are sent to SearchOnTop with publisher IDs.
When you search from the Nature background pictures new tab page and press search, the extension opens a SearchOnTop URL with your search terms plus fixed publisherid and barcodeid values, sent to direct.searchontop.com.
- 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 opens a direct.searchontop.com URL that includes the entered search terms and fixed publisher identifiers.
- Your search termsweather tomorrow (illustrative)
Text typed into the new-tab search form is sent as the q query parameter.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.6. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
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storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Nature background pictures new tab 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.
- direct.searchontop.com
Nature background pictures new tab sends data to direct.searchontop.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.