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Risk Score
5.46
Risk Level:
Medium
Recommendation:
🟡 MEDIUM RISK — review
Top Risks
- Abandoned: 41 months since last update — zombie extension with growing attack surface.
- Brand impersonation: developer uses hotmail.fr, not affiliated with Stack Overflow/Overflow.
- Privacy policy is Google's generic account policy — not scoped to this extension; admits data collection and 3rd-party sharing.
- CVE: known-bad host web.archive.org associated with URLHaus malware_download finding.
- Two innerHTML DOM-XSS sinks with no CSP; page-content injection risk on Stack Exchange network.
Evidence
- brand_impersonation store brand_mention.is_impersonation=true; developer is anthococagne@hotmail.fr, not Stack Overflow Inc.
- stale_extension store Last updated January 24 2023; months_since_update=41 — exceeds 36-month zombie threshold.
- generic_privacy_policy store Privacy URL is Google account policy; scope_extension=false, data_collection=true, third_party_sharing=true.
- known_bad_host crx web.archive.org in js_external_hosts; URLHaus hit: 154.216.19.139 malware_download (elf).
- dom_xss_no_csp crx 2x dom_sink_innerhtml_userctrl findings; csp_present=false amplifies risk per FIX B.
- install_url_hijack crx install_url_hijack=true; target null — opens 3rd-party or unknown URL on install.
- geo_diversity crx JS hosts span 4 countries (CA, IN, SG, US); threshold met but category is DeveloperTools (+1.5).
- free_webmail_dev store Developer email on hotmail.fr; no business website; not a verified publisher.
CVE Exposures (1)
| CVE | Library | Severity | Fixed in | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| web.archive.org | web.archive.org | high | — | [urlhaus/malware_download] URLHaus malware_download: 154.216.19.139,elf |
Permissions Breakdown
- storage low Stores user preferences locally; no cross-site data risk.
- content_scripts on *.stackoverflow.com etc. medium Content scripts run on Stack Exchange network pages; DOM access is bounded to those sites.
Pillar Scores
Permissions0.30
Reputation7.00
Network1.50
Webstore2.00
Maintenance10.00
Privacy10.00
Code Quality4.00
CVE Exposure4.00
Bookkeeping
Rubric v3.6
Scored at 2026-06-16 07:26
Listing SHA
1d75aa2cb8c5…
Force block
— not fired
Score recovered
no
Elapsed
26.9s