Is News Hub kiosk safe?
News Hub kiosk renders operator-controlled remote message text into the page as raw HTML before any sanitization runs.
The extension periodically fetches message strings from jitt.wwevents.fun and displays them as toast notifications on BuzzFeed, Tasty, Google News, and MSN pages. The first time a message is shown it is inserted directly into the page's HTML without sanitization; only a later, user-triggered 'next message' click applies sanitization to the same content. Separately, the background service worker polls the same server for desktop notifications whose title, message, icon, and click-through destination URL are all set by the remote endpoint.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itwwevents - 17 other listings from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
wwevents - 17 other listings from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
17 other listings published from this account, 97k+ users between them. 1 of them carries a finding.
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.
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 5.9. 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 msn.com
*://*.msn.com/*
Read and change your data on buzzfeed.com
*://*.buzzfeed.com/*
Read and change your data on buzzfeednews.com
*://*.buzzfeednews.com/*
Read and change your data on tasty.co
*://*.tasty.co/*
Read and change your data on google.com
*://*.google.com/*
Read and change your data on wwevents.fun
*://*.wwevents.fun/*
Read and change your data on every site you visit
<all_urls>
Read information about your displays
system.display
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Store data in your browser
storage
Block and redirect the requests your browser makes
declarativeNetRequest
See which of your requests its blocking rules matched
declarativeNetRequestFeedback
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed News Hub kiosk 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.
- jitt.wwevents.fun
News Hub kiosk sends data to jitt.wwevents.fun. 13 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.