Is Ultimate Office Tools safe?
Ultimate Office Tools sends new-tab search queries to f.frequentvisitor.com with a hardcoded affiliate token.
Ultimate Office Tools replaces the browser's new tab page with its own search page. When a user submits a search there, the extension redirects the query to f.frequentvisitor.com along with a hardcoded affiliate token.
Who publishes itMediastinct® Limited - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding
Mediastinct® Limited - 1 other listing 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
1 other listing published from this account, 1k+ 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 searches are sent to frequentvisitor.com with an affiliate token
When you submit a search from Ultimate Office Tools' new-tab page, the extension redirects that query to f.frequentvisitor.com.
The request includes the search text you entered and a hardcoded affiliate token in the URL.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-359
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
The user submits a search from the extension's new-tab page.
The extension redirects the entered query to f.frequentvisitor.com with a hardcoded affiliate token.
- Search textquarterly tax forms (illustrative)
The words typed into the new-tab search form are included in the redirect URL.
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Ultimate Office Tools 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.
- f.frequentvisitor.com
Ultimate Office Tools sends data to f.frequentvisitor.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.