Is SnapThePrice: Real-time Price Tracker & AI Shopping Assistant safe?
SnapThePrice opens a hidden affiliate redirect that includes the active tab URL.
When the side panel loads, SnapThePrice asks its background script to create an inactive tab pointing to redirect.snaptheprice.com with the current tab URL in the query string. A remote configuration from service.snaptheprice.com controls whether that redirect tab is closed automatically and how long it stays open.
Who publishes itSNAPTHEPRICE CO LTD - no other listings under this identity
SNAPTHEPRICE CO LTD - no other listings under this identity
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
Publishers can request a review.
Findings
Side panel opens affiliate redirect with the active tab URL.
Opening the side panel reads the active tab URL and wraps it in a redirect to redirect.snaptheprice.com/go, sending the page you're viewing to SnapThePrice's redirect service as part of an affiliate-link flow.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-359
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
The user opens the extension side panel.
The extension queries the active tab and opens an inactive redirect tab containing that page URL.
- Your active tab URLhttps://example.com/products/item (illustrative)
This is the address of the page open in the active browser tab and is used as the redirect target.
Dynamic verification confirmed the side-panel script sends the active-aff-link message on load, and the background handler builds the redirect URL from the active tab URL.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.2.1. 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
*://*/*
Store data in your browser
storage
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Show a panel beside the page
sidePanel
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed SnapThePrice: Real-time Price Tracker & AI Shopping Assistant 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.
- redirect.snaptheprice.com
SnapThePrice: Real-time Price Tracker & AI Shopping Assistant sends data to redirect.snaptheprice.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- service.snaptheprice.com
SnapThePrice: Real-time Price Tracker & AI Shopping Assistant sends data to service.snaptheprice.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.