SECURITY REPORT · EXTENSHI SCAN

Paper Retriever Extension

Firefox extension·by CJE Enterprises (spinout of the Borges Lab at ASU)

/ 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

Paper Retriever Extension's safety score vs every other extension we've scanned

Globally

71.87%of extensions carry more risk

This extension

Riskier ←→ Safer

Ranked across every extension we scan

In its category

61.870000000000005%of its category extensions carry more risk

This extension

Riskier ←→ Safer

Ranked within its category

Findings

median 38Lower is safer

Risky permissions

median 1Critical + high perms

Total permissions

median 4All declared perms

Critical findings

median 2Severity = Critical

Findings breakdown

Automated security signal · 19 findings across 5 severities

findings
detected

Critical526%

High316%

Medium526%

Low632%

Info00%

Permissions requested

4 risky permissions of 25 total

1 critical permission require attention

This extension requests 25 permissions in total. 4 of them grant broad capabilities that are worth a careful look.

Critical

Access to all websites

Can read and modify content on every website you visit

High

Manage downloads

Can initiate downloads and access your download history

High

Observe web requests

Can monitor all network requests made by the browser

High

View open tabs

Can see URLs and titles of all open tabs

Medium

Access user identity

Can get OAuth2 tokens and access your Google account identity

Medium

Access current tab

Can temporarily access the content of the active tab when you click the extension

Medium