SECURITY REPORT · EXTENSHI SCAN
Altmetric for Pubmed and Google Scholar
Chrome extension·by Ankit Agrawal
80
/ 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
Altmetric for Pubmed and Google Scholar's safety score vs every other extension we've scanned
Globally
38%of extensions carry more risk
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked against 397,380 extensions
In Productivity
48%of productivity extensions carry more risk
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked against 191,263 productivity extensions
Findings
14
median 16Lower is safer
Critical findings
2
median 0Severity = Critical
Permissions
2
median 3Declared in manifest
Active users
5000
median 14vs category median
Findings breakdown
Automated security signal · 14 distinct issues across 6 severities
14
distinct issues
detected
detected
Critical214%
High214%
Needs Review00%
Medium750%
Low321%
Info00%
Permissions requested
2 risky permissions of 2 total
2 high-risk permissions require attention
This extension requests 2 permissions in total. 2 of them grant broad capabilities that are worth a careful look.
High
Access all HTTP sites
Can read and modify content on all non-encrypted websites
High
Access all HTTPS sites
Can read and modify content on all encrypted websites
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