SECURITY REPORT · EXTENSHI SCAN
Elicit: AI for Scientific Research
Chrome extension·by Elicit
15
/ 100 SAFETY SCORE
CRITICAL
Severe indicators. Treat as unsafe until the developer addresses these findings.
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
Elicit: AI for Scientific Research's safety score vs every other extension we've scanned
Globally
0%of extensions carry more risk
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked against 421,602 extensions
In Productivity
0%of productivity extensions carry more risk
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked against 206,569 productivity extensions
Findings
37
median 18Lower is safer
Critical findings
4
median 0Severity = Critical
Permissions
2
median 3Declared in manifest
Active users
30000
median 14vs category median
Findings breakdown
Automated security signal · 37 distinct issues across 6 severities
37
distinct issues
detected
detected
Scanners reported 44 raw occurrences; repeats of the same issue at the same location are merged here. The list below shows every occurrence.
Critical411%
High13%
Needs Review00%
Medium2157%
Low1130%
Info00%
Permissions requested
2 permissions declared
No risky permissions
2 permissions requested — none are flagged as risky.
Medium
Block requests with host access
Can block or redirect network requests and requires host permissions
Low
Create offscreen documents
Can create hidden documents for background processing tasks
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