Is Advanced Search safe?
Advanced Search is medium risk. When you search from the browser address bar, Advanced Search makes searchswitcher.click the default search provider. Your search terms and suggestion input are sent to searchswitcher.click search and suggestion endpoints.
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Findings
Advanced Search routes browser searches to searchswitcher.click
When you search from the browser address bar, Advanced Search makes searchswitcher.click the default search provider.
Your search terms and suggestion input are sent to searchswitcher.click search and suggestion endpoints.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-359
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
The user enters a search or suggestion query in the browser address bar.
The extension routes omnibox search and suggestion queries through searchswitcher.click.
- Search URLhttps://searchswitcher.click/search.php?q=weather
The configured search and suggestion endpoints receive the browser search request context.
- Search termsweather
The words typed into the browser address bar reveal what the user is searching for.
Dynamic analysis confirmed that the manifest configures searchswitcher.click for default search and suggestion handling.