Is Video Downloader Pro safe?
Video Downloader Pro embeds a hardcoded Twitter API credential that any user of the extension can extract.
The extension bundles a Base64-encoded Twitter consumer key and consumer secret in its source code to enable Twitter video downloads. On each Twitter video request, it sends this credential to api.twitter.com to obtain a Bearer token for app-only API access. Because the credential ships verbatim in the extension package, it is trivially readable by anyone who inspects the bundle.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.3.10resigned1. 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
http://*/*
Read and change your data on every secure site you visit
https://*/*
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Watch, block and rewrite every request your browser makes
webRequestBlocking
Store data in your browser
storage
Start, monitor and manage your downloads
downloads
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Video Downloader Pro 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.twitter.com
Video Downloader Pro sends data to api.twitter.com. 3 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.