SECURITY REPORT · EXTENSHI SCAN
Chrome Highlighter — Free Text & Word Highlighter for Webpages
Chrome extension·by CyberGuard
73
/ 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
Chrome Highlighter — Free Text & Word Highlighter for Webpages's safety score vs every other extension we've scanned
Globally
19%of extensions carry more risk
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked against 409,539 extensions
In Productivity
25%of productivity extensions carry more risk
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked against 198,326 productivity extensions
Findings
11
median 16Lower is safer
Critical findings
1
median 0Severity = Critical
Permissions
1
median 3Declared in manifest
Active users
228
median 14vs category median
Findings breakdown
Automated security signal · 11 distinct issues across 6 severities
11
distinct issues
detected
detected
Scanners reported 14 raw occurrences; repeats of the same issue at the same location are merged here. The list below shows every occurrence.
Critical19%
High19%
Needs Review00%
Medium873%
Low19%
Info00%
Permissions requested
1 permission declared
No risky permissions
1 permission requested — none are flagged as risky.
Medium
Store local data
Can save data locally in the browser for persistence
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