Is Web Collector for MAXQDA safe?

Medium risk

Web Collector for MAXQDA fetches page-provided image URLs with extension privileges and writes the image data back into the page.

When its popup opens, the content script looks for images with empty or base64 sources and tries HTTP(S) URLs from data-src and other attributes. The background worker fetches those URLs if they return an image, converts the bytes to a data URI, and sets it on the original page image element where page scripts can observe it.

Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.

www.maxqda.com VERBI Softwarev3.0.0Chrome Web Store
43Risk
Who publishes it

VERBI – Software. Consult. Sozialforschung. GmbH - no other listings under this identity

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Publisher
www.maxqda.com VERBI Software
Declared legal entity
VERBI – Software. Consult. Sozialforschung. GmbH
Registered address
Invalidenstr. 74, Berlin 10557, DE
Registered contact
VERBI Software GmbH

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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

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

  • Add items to the right-click menu

    contextMenus

  • Start, monitor and manage your downloads

    downloads

  • Save the full contents of any page you visit

    pageCapture

  • Run its own code inside the pages you visit

    scripting

Updated 30 September 2026jhnochbooihpgjbgcjlpihaefoehlakd