SECURITY REPORT · EXTENSHI SCAN
Claude 4 Scholar
Chrome extension·by AnswerAI Team
0
/ 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
Claude 4 Scholar's safety score vs every other extension we've scanned
Globally
13%of extensions carry more risk
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked against 369,936 extensions
In Productivity
17%of productivity extensions carry more risk
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked against 177,133 productivity extensions
Findings
67
median 16Lower is safer
Critical findings
2
median 0Severity = Critical
Permissions
4
median 3Declared in manifest
Active users
411
median 14vs category median
Findings breakdown
Automated security signal · 67 distinct issues across 6 severities
67
distinct issues
detected
detected
Scanners reported 73 raw occurrences; repeats of the same issue at the same location are merged here. The list below shows every occurrence.
Critical23%
High23%
Needs Review00%
Medium2537%
Low3755%
Info11%
Permissions requested
3 risky permissions of 4 total
3 high-risk permissions require attention
This extension requests 4 permissions in total. 3 of them grant broad capabilities that are worth a careful look.
High
Access browser cookies
Can read and modify cookies, potentially accessing login sessions
High
View open tabs
Can see URLs and titles of all open tabs
High
Execute scripts in pages
Can inject and execute JavaScript code in web pages
Medium
Store local data
Can save data locally in the browser for persistence
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Scan performed by extenshi.io · Aug 15, 2026
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