Is Okta Browser Plugin safe?
Okta Browser Plugin provides enterprise SSO and sends opt-in usage telemetry to Pendo analytics.
The extension enables employees to sign in to work applications through Okta's identity platform, injecting credentials and managing sessions across all sites. When an organisation enables the feature and the user has given cookie consent, the extension sends usage events—including app names, URLs visited in the Okta dashboard, and browser type—to app.pendo.io. This telemetry is gated by two server-side flags (pluginPendoTrackingEnabled and cookieConsentGiven) and is stripped of app detail for personal Okta accounts.
Who publishes itOkta - no other listings under this identity, 12 shared hostnames
Okta - no other listings under this identity, 12 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 12 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.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 6.45.0. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to. The current listed version is 6.48.0, which we have not unpacked yet.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
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See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Store data in your browser
storage
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Okta Browser Plugin 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.
- app.pendo.io
Okta Browser Plugin sends data to app.pendo.io. 4 other extensions we have analysed send data here.