SECURITY REPORT · EXTENSHI SCAN
Arxiv Redirector
Firefox extension·by Shashank Shekhar
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
Arxiv Redirector's safety score vs every other extension we've scanned
Globally
31%of extensions carry more risk
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked against 120,712 extensions
In Tabs
18%of tabs extensions carry more risk
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked against 8,172 tabs extensions
Findings
5
median 3Lower is safer
Critical findings
1
median 0Severity = Critical
Permissions
4
median 3Declared in manifest
Active users
6
median 3vs category median
Findings breakdown
Automated security signal · 5 findings across 5 severities
5
findings
detected
detected
Critical120%
High00%
Medium360%
Low120%
Info00%
Permissions requested
4 permissions declared
No risky permissions
4 permissions requested — none are flagged as risky.
Medium
Store local data
Can save data locally in the browser for persistence
Medium
Block requests with host access
Can block or redirect network requests and requires host permissions
Info
*://*.arxiv.org/html/*
No additional information available.
Info
*://*.arxiv.org/abs/*
No additional information available.
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