Colab Spellcheck
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Risk Score
4.01
Risk Level:
Medium
Recommendation:
🟡 MEDIUM RISK — review
Top Risks
- Privacy policy is Google's generic account policy — does not scope to this extension at all; admits data collection and 3rd-party sharing.
- Brand impersonation: extension mentions 'google' and developer is not a verified Google entity (gmail.com dev).
- Free-webmail developer (gmail.com) with no verified business identity raises accountability risk.
- innerHTML DOM-XSS sink in popup.js with no CSP — code injection surface if input is attacker-controlled.
- Rating of 1 star signals poor reception; only 387 installs limits blast radius.
Evidence
- brand_impersonation store brand_mention.is_impersonation=true; brands_mentioned=[google]; developer_domain=gmail.com; confirmed_owner=false.
- free_webmail_developer store Developer email marten.thompson.jr@gmail.com; no business website; no verified publisher badge.
- generic_privacy_policy store Privacy URL is Google's account policy; scope_extension=false, data_collection=true, third_party_sharing=true.
- dom_xss_sink_no_csp crx popup.js: innerHTML assigned from variable; csp_present=false — no mitigation for DOM-XSS.
- no_csp manifest content_security_policy is null; MV3 default applies but no explicit hardening.
- external_host crx js_external_hosts=[code.google.com]; operator_cluster fingerprint references code.google.com.
- low_rating store Rating=1.0; install_count=387; signals poor user experience or functionality issues.
- cve_findings_clean crx cve_findings_raw=[]; no known CVEs in bundled libraries.
Permissions Breakdown
- activeTab low Grants access to current tab only on user action; narrow scope.
- storage low Local key-value storage; no network or user-data exfil on its own.
- content_scripts https://colab.research.google.com/* low Narrowly scoped to Google Colab only; matches stated function.
Pillar Scores
Permissions0.60
Reputation8.00
Network0.00
Webstore2.00
Maintenance0.00
Privacy10.00
Code Quality2.00
CVE Exposure0.00
Bookkeeping
Rubric v3.6
Scored at 2026-06-16 07:41
Listing SHA
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Force block
— not fired
Score recovered
no
Elapsed
21.5s