SECURITY REPORT · EXTENSHI SCAN
AVG Online Security
Firefox extension·by AVG Technologies
81
/ 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
AVG Online Security's safety score vs every other extension we've scanned
Globally
43%of extensions carry more risk
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked against 409,539 extensions
In Privacy & Security
36%of privacy & security extensions carry more risk
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked against 12,541 privacy & security extensions
Findings
6
median 5Lower is safer
Critical findings
2
median 0Severity = Critical
Permissions
3
median 4Declared in manifest
Active users
842
median 3vs category median
Findings breakdown
Automated security signal · 6 distinct issues across 6 severities
6
distinct issues
detected
detected
Scanners reported 9 raw occurrences; repeats of the same issue at the same location are merged here. The list below shows every occurrence.
Critical233%
High117%
Needs Review00%
Medium117%
Low233%
Info00%
Permissions requested
3 risky permissions of 3 total
3 high-risk permissions require attention
This extension requests 3 permissions in total. 3 of them grant broad capabilities that are worth a careful look.
High
Access all HTTPS sites
Can read and modify content on all encrypted websites
High
Access all HTTP sites
Can read and modify content on all non-encrypted websites
High
View open tabs
Can see URLs and titles of all open tabs
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