Is VPN ProxyWave safe?
VPN ProxyWave sends your proxy login credentials to any website's HTTP authentication prompt, not just the upstream proxy.
When the built-in proxy is active, the extension registers a webRequest.onAuthRequired listener across all sites and always answers with the decrypted proxy credentials fetched from data.proxyshade.com, without checking whether the auth challenge actually came from the proxy. As a result, an ordinary website that presents its own Basic/Digest login prompt while the proxy is on receives the same username and password meant only for the proxy server.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.2. 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
*://*/*
Route all of your browsing through a server of its choosing
proxy
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed VPN ProxyWave 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.
- data.proxyshade.com
VPN ProxyWave sends data to data.proxyshade.com. No other extension we have analyzed sends data here.