SECURITY REPORT · EXTENSHI SCAN
Desktop Wikipedia
Firefox extension·by l_bratch
0
/ 100 SAFETY SCORE
CAUTION
Mostly fine, but a few things worth reviewing before you install.
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How it ranks
Desktop Wikipedia's safety score vs every other extension we've scanned
Globally
80.74%of extensions carry more risk
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked across every extension we scan
In its category
70.74%of its category extensions carry more risk
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked within its category
Findings
1
median 38Lower is safer
Risky permissions
2
median 1Critical + high perms
Total permissions
3
median 4All declared perms
Critical findings
1
median 2Severity = Critical
Findings breakdown
Automated security signal · 1 finding across 5 severities
1
findings
detected
detected
Critical1100%
High00%
Medium00%
Low00%
Info00%
Permissions requested
2 risky permissions of 3 total
2 high-risk permissions require attention
This extension requests 3 permissions in total. 2 of them grant broad capabilities that are worth a careful look.
High
Observe web requests
Can monitor all network requests made by the browser
High
Block and modify web requests
Can intercept, block, or modify any network request before it completes
Info
*://*.wikipedia.org/*
No additional information available.
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