Is PureVPN Proxy - Best VPN for Chrome safe?
PureVPN supplies decrypted VPN credentials in response to HTTP authentication challenges from any host, not only its own proxy servers.
The extension stores VPN credentials encrypted in chrome.storage.local and decrypts them to answer HTTP 407 and 401 authentication challenges. A request handler registered for all URLs returns the username and password to any host that issues such a challenge, because the code does not check whether the requesting host is a PureVPN proxy. A developer comment in the source notes the scope guard was never added.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itPureVPN - no other listings under this identity, 9 shared hostnames
PureVPN - no other listings under this identity, 9 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 9 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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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed PureVPN 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.proxy.purevpn.com
PureVPN sends data to api.proxy.purevpn.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.