GIF Maker in Google Chrome™
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Risk Score
6.19
Risk Level:
High
Recommendation:
🚫 BLOCK
Top Risks
- Brand impersonation: title uses 'Google Chrome™' trademark; developer is gmail-only with no verified association.
- Privacy policy fetched but admits data collection and third-party sharing without scoping to this extension (v3.5 D: +10.0).
- Extension abandoned 45 months with no update; maintenance pillar maxes out.
- Uninstall URL hijack detected — redirects users to third-party destination on uninstall.
- Install URL hijack detected — opens third-party URL on install.
Evidence
- brand_impersonation store brand_mention.is_impersonation=true; brands_mentioned=[google]; developer_domain=gmail.com; confirmed_owner=false.
- uninstall_url_hijack crx uninstall_url_hijack=true; target unknown. Webstore +3.0 per rubric.
- install_url_hijack crx install_url_hijack=true; target unknown. Webstore +2.0 per rubric.
- privacy_policy_generic_admits_sharing api fetched=true, scope_extension=false, data_collection=true, third_party_sharing=true → v3.5D: +10.0.
- stale_extension store months_since_update=45 (>36mo); maintenance score=10.0.
- free_webmail_developer store developer_email=makeappsforfree@gmail.com; no verified publisher; no business domain.
- dom_xss_sink crx js/common.js: innerHTML assigned from variable; no CSP present → code quality +2.0.
- no_csp manifest content_security_policy=null; MV3 so no +2.0 network penalty, but dom_sink upgraded to +2.0.
Pillar Scores
Permissions0.00
Reputation8.00
Network0.00
Webstore8.50
Maintenance10.00
Privacy10.00
Code Quality2.00
CVE Exposure0.00
Bookkeeping
Rubric v3.6
Scored at 2026-06-16 07:20
Listing SHA
54b389a542d0…
Force block
— not fired
Score recovered
no
Elapsed
19.6s