Is Paint Tool by Painty safe?
Paint Tool by Painty sends top-site hostnames for favicon lookup and typed search text for autocomplete.
On startup, the extension reads Chrome top sites and sends each hostname to api.thepainty.com to fetch favicon previews for new-tab shortcuts. If you type in its optional new-tab search box, it sends the current query text to suggest.finditnowonline.com for autocomplete suggestions before submission.
Who publishes itPainty Web Paint - no other listings under this identity, 1 shared hostname
Painty Web Paint - no other listings under this identity, 1 shared hostname
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 1 hostname
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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Findings
Paint Tool sends Chrome top-site hostnames to Painty favicon API
On automatic init after install, the extension reads Chrome's top sites and sends each hostname to api.thepainty.com to fetch favicons, sharing browsing-history-derived URLs and hostnames with Painty during background startup.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-359
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
The extension initializes automatically after install.
It reads Chrome top sites and sends their hostnames to api.thepainty.com for favicon lookup.
- Chrome top-site historychatgpt.com
A hostname from Chrome's top sites can reveal a site the user visits frequently.
- Page URL hostnameyoutube.com
The URL is reduced to a hostname and included in the favicon lookup request.
Painty sends typed new-tab search queries to a suggestion service.
Typing in Painty's optional new-tab search box sends the current text to suggest.finditnowonline.com for autocomplete, sharing form input before you submit the search, though the listing is for a paint and screenshot tool, not search.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-359
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
The user types into Painty's optional new-tab search box.
The extension sends the current search text to suggest.finditnowonline.com for autocomplete.
- Typed search textpaint color picker (illustrative)
The text entered in the new-tab search field is sent as an autocomplete query before search submission.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.11.1. 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 every site you visit
<all_urls>
Store data in your browser
storage
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Read the sites you visit most
topSites
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Paint Tool by Painty 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.
- api.thepainty.com
Paint Tool by Painty sends data to api.thepainty.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- suggest.finditnowonline.com
Paint Tool by Painty sends data to suggest.finditnowonline.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.