Is Notifier for BBC News safe?
Notifier for BBC News renders its remote feed into the popup with unescaped HTML, exposing it to markup injection and forced navigation.
The extension fetches its news feed from notifiernews.com and builds the popup UI by inserting each item's title, author, and annotation directly into the page with innerHTML, without sanitizing the content. If the feed server ever returned HTML markup instead of plain text, that markup would render as live content in the extension's popup, and any link inside it could redirect the user's active tab to an arbitrary URL when clicked. The extension's manifest has no relaxed content security policy, so this is limited to markup injection and forced navigation rather than script execution.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itkillianbyrnne - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding
killianbyrnne - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
1 other listing published from this account, 84 users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.02. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Notifier for BBC News 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.
- notifiernews.com
Notifier for BBC News sends data to notifiernews.com. 3 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.