Is Personalized Backgrounds safe?
Personalized Backgrounds sends new-tab search queries to goog.personalizedbackground.com.
Personalized Backgrounds replaces the browser's new-tab page and includes a search box. When a user submits a non-empty search, the extension redirects the tab to goog.personalizedbackground.com with the typed search text in the q parameter.
Who publishes itLeadPro Media - no other listings under this identity, 1 shared hostname
LeadPro Media - 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
New-tab search sends typed queries to Personalized Backgrounds domain
When you use the extension's new-tab search box, the text you type is placed into a URL request to goog.personalizedbackground.com.
The transmitted data is form input, specifically the search query entered on the new-tab page.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-359
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
You use the new-tab search box.
The extension reads the typed query and navigates to goog.personalizedbackground.com with that query in the URL.
- Your search queryweather forecast (illustrative)
This is the text typed into the extension's new-tab search box and sent as the q URL parameter.
The behavior was confirmed from the stored verification evidence: the extension registers a Chrome new-tab override, loads its new-tab script, reads the search input, and assigns the browser location to the Personalized Backgrounds endpoint with the query included.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.1.2. 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 personalizedbackground.com
*://*.personalizedbackground.com/*
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Personalized Backgrounds 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.
- goog.personalizedbackground.com
Personalized Backgrounds sends data to goog.personalizedbackground.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.