SECURITY REPORT · EXTENSHI SCAN

Letter to the Editor Assistant

Firefox extension·by Frederick Hewett

/ 100 SAFETY SCORE

CAUTION

Mostly fine, but a few things worth reviewing before you install.

Automated analysis of publicly available code — not a professional security audit. It may produce false positives and does not prove an extension is unsafe or safe. Treat it as one signal among many. Disclaimer · Report an issue

How it ranks

Letter to the Editor Assistant's safety score vs every other extension we've scanned

Globally

17%of extensions carry more risk

This extension

Riskier ←→ Safer

Ranked against 409,539 extensions

In Feeds News Blogging

6%of feeds news blogging extensions carry more risk

This extension

Riskier ←→ Safer

Ranked against 7,335 feeds news blogging extensions

Findings

median 4Lower is safer

Critical findings

median 0Severity = Critical

Permissions

median 3Declared in manifest

Active users

median 2vs category median

Findings breakdown

Automated security signal · 39 distinct issues across 6 severities

distinct issues
detected

Scanners reported 40 raw occurrences; repeats of the same issue at the same location are merged here. The list below shows every occurrence.

Critical25%

High25%

Needs Review00%

Medium1128%

Low2462%

Info00%

Permissions requested

2 risky permissions of 49 total

2 high-risk permissions require attention

This extension requests 49 permissions in total. 2 of them grant broad capabilities that are worth a careful look.

High

View open tabs

Can see URLs and titles of all open tabs

High

Access browser cookies

Can read and modify cookies, potentially accessing login sessions

Medium

Write to clipboard

Can place content onto your clipboard

Medium

Access current tab

Can temporarily access the content of the active tab when you click the extension

Medium