Is Paris Background Pictures New Tab safe?

Medium risk

Paris Background Pictures New Tab sends typed new-tab searches to random feed domains.

When a user clicks the new-tab search button, the extension reads the text in its search box and opens a feed URL with that text in the q parameter. The destination is randomly selected between two third-party feed hostnames.

parispicturesnewtabv1.0.3Chrome Web Store
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Findings

New-tab searches are forwarded to third-party feed domains

When you use the Paris Background Pictures New Tab search box, the extension appends your search terms to a feed URL and opens it, either feed.searchbazak.com or feed.tenbasearch.com, with the typed input in the q parameter.

Severity
Medium unwanted
Type
Unexpected
CWE
CWE-359
Source
Dynamic sandbox
What actually happens
You did this

The user submits a search from the extension's new-tab page.

The extension did this

The extension reads the search box value, chooses one of two feed domains, and opens a URL with the search terms in the q parameter.

Captured request
GEThttps://feed.searchbazak.com/?publisherid=71236&barcodeid=71236003&q=paris%20wallpaper (illustrative); https://feed.tenbasearch.com/?publisherid=71236&barcodeid=71236003&q=paris%20wallpaper (illustrative)
Fields in the request
  • Your search terms
    paris wallpaper (illustrative)

    The text you enter in the new-tab search box is sent to a third-party feed domain as the query value.

What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.3. 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 parispicturesnewtab.com

    *://parispicturesnewtab.com/ and 1 more

  • Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in

    cookies

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Paris 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.

  • feed.searchbazak.com

    Paris Background Pictures New Tab sends data to feed.searchbazak.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.

  • feed.tenbasearch.com

    Paris Background Pictures New Tab sends data to feed.tenbasearch.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.

Updated 30 September 2026kapfccbbiifcmliofddlhncmlegicabn