Is Speed Dial Dogs safe?
Speed Dial Dogs sends new-tab search text to addonsearch.net and Bing.
When a user submits a search from the new-tab page, the extension redirects the query to addonsearch.net with a stored ref value. Its autocomplete feature also sends the current search-field text to Bing's suggestion endpoint while the user types.
Who publishes ituepselon - 2 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
uepselon - 2 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
2 other listings published from this account, 24k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
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 queries are sent to addonsearch.net with a ref value.
Searches from the Speed Dial Dogs new-tab page are redirected to addonsearch.net.
The request includes the text you typed and a ref value the extension fetched from addonsearch.net during installation.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-359
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
The user submits a search from the new-tab page.
The extension redirects the search query to addonsearch.net and adds the stored ref value.
- Search form inputweather tomorrow (illustrative)
The text entered into the new-tab search box is sent as the search query.
Dynamic analysis confirmed the redirect path described by the database evidence: installation configuration supplies the ref value, and submitting the new-tab search sends the query plus that ref value to addonsearch.net.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.0.0. 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
<all_urls>
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Read and change your full browsing history
history
Store data in your browser
storage
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Speed Dial Dogs 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.
- www.bing.comwidely used
Speed Dial Dogs sends data to www.bing.com. A widely used service: 29 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- www.addonsearch.net
Speed Dial Dogs sends data to www.addonsearch.net. 2 other extensions we have analysed send data here.