SECURITY REPORT · EXTENSHI SCAN
LayerVPN
Chrome extension·by LayerAI Official
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
LayerVPN's safety score vs every other extension we've scanned
Globally
12%of extensions carry more risk
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked against 120,723 extensions
In Productivity
25%of productivity extensions carry more risk
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked against 25,973 productivity extensions
Findings
21
median 10Lower is safer
Critical findings
2
median 0Severity = Critical
Permissions
5
median 3Declared in manifest
Active users
3000
median 23vs category median
Findings breakdown
Automated security signal · 21 findings across 5 severities
21
findings
detected
detected
Critical210%
High210%
Medium1467%
Low314%
Info00%
Permissions requested
3 risky permissions of 5 total
3 high-risk permissions require attention
This extension requests 5 permissions in total. 3 of them grant broad capabilities that are worth a careful look.
High
Control proxy settings
Can route your browser traffic through a proxy server
High
Observe web requests
Can monitor all network requests made by the browser
High
Auth request provider
Can provide authentication credentials for web requests
Medium
Store local data
Can save data locally in the browser for persistence
Medium
Access user identity
Can get OAuth2 tokens and access your Google account identity
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Scan performed by extenshi.io · Jun 25, 2026
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