SECURITY REPORT · EXTENSHI SCAN
GitHub File Downloader News
Firefox extension·by b52club
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
GitHub File Downloader News's safety score vs every other extension we've scanned
Globally
78.55%of extensions carry more risk
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked across every extension we scan
In its category
68.55%of its category extensions carry more risk
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked within its category
Findings
8
median 38Lower is safer
Risky permissions
1
median 1Critical + high perms
Total permissions
3
median 4All declared perms
Critical findings
2
median 2Severity = Critical
Findings breakdown
Automated security signal · 8 findings across 5 severities
8
findings
detected
detected
Critical225%
High00%
Medium675%
Low00%
Info00%
Permissions requested
1 risky permission of 3 total
1 high-risk permission require attention
This extension requests 3 permissions in total. 1 of them grant broad capabilities that are worth a careful look.
High
Observe web requests
Can monitor all network requests made by the browser
Info
*://*.github.com/*
No additional information available.
Info
*://raw.githubusercontent.com/*
No additional information available.
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