Is Video Downloader Pro safe?
Video Downloader Pro sets chromeapps.site as the default search provider for omnibox searches.
Its manifest configures Chrome's default search provider to https://chromeapps.site/videodownloadsearch/search.html?q={searchTerms}. When users search from the address bar, Chrome substitutes the search text into the q parameter and sends it to chromeapps.site.
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Findings
Omnibox searches are sent to chromeapps.site by default.
When Video Downloader Pro is installed, it sets chromeapps.site as the browser's default search provider.
Searches you type in the omnibox are placed in the q parameter and sent to chromeapps.site/videodownloadsearch/search.html.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-359
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
The user enters a search from the browser omnibox.
The extension's manifest makes chromeapps.site the default search provider, so the browser sends the search to that endpoint.
- Your search URLhttps://chromeapps.site/videodownloadsearch/search.html?q=weather%20today (illustrative)
The request contains the search terms typed into the browser omnibox, which can reveal what you are looking for.
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.
- chromeapps.site
Video Downloader Pro sends data to chromeapps.site. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.