Is YouTube Video Downloader Pro safe?
YouTube Video Downloader Pro sends its phone-download button to an unrelated campaign site.
When a user clicks the popup's Download For Phone button, the extension opens a URL on furyprosecutionkitchen.com instead of using the selected YouTube video or quality. Its normal download flow also sends the entered YouTube video ID to Google's YouTube Data API to fetch video details.
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Findings
Download button opens a third-party campaign URL.
Clicking the popup's download-for-phone button opens a third-party campaign URL instead of the selected video URL and quality.
The request goes to furyprosecutionkitchen.com and can expose your IP address to that site.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-506
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
The user clicks the popup's download-for-phone button.
The extension opens a third-party campaign URL instead of using the selected video URL.
- Your IP address203.0.113.42 (illustrative)
The remote site receives the network address used for the navigation, which can indicate approximate location and network provider.
Verification confirmed that the popup button's click handler opens this remote URL while ignoring the selected video URL and quality values.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.0. 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 www.googleapis.com
https://www.googleapis.com/
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed YouTube 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.
- www.googleapis.comwidely used
YouTube Video Downloader Pro sends data to www.googleapis.com. A widely used service: 44 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- furyprosecutionkitchen.com
YouTube Video Downloader Pro sends data to furyprosecutionkitchen.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.