Is XDM Browser Monitor v8+ safe?
XDM Browser Monitor v8+ intercepts cookies and request headers from all browser traffic and forwards them to a local download manager app.
The extension attaches to all outgoing HTTP and HTTPS requests to capture headers including Cookie and Authorization values. When a URL matches a remotely-configured watchlist, it also forwards the tab URL and page title. Session cookies are additionally collected via chrome.cookies.getAll and sent to the local XDM app at 127.0.0.1:8597 over unencrypted HTTP, including during user-triggered download actions.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.4. 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
*://*/*
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Watch, block and rewrite every request your browser makes
webRequestBlocking
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed XDM Browser Monitor v8+ 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.
- 127.0.0.1:8597
XDM Browser Monitor v8+ sends data to 127.0.0.1:8597. No other extension we have analyzed sends data here.