chrome-extension
Audited by Socket on Sep 15, 2026
2 alerts found:
Anomalyx2The fragment appears to be legitimate educational Chrome extension messaging documentation, not malware. It contains meaningful security risks in its example implementations: missing authorization and origin validation across the page bridge, weak fetch URL allowlist validation, unvalidated RPC inputs, broad tab/storage access, and incomplete external-sender verification. These issues are potentially exploitable when the examples are used directly, but no overt supply-chain attack behavior or malicious payload is present.
The material is legitimate Chrome extension networking guidance, not evident malware. It contains important security weaknesses in the sample relay, especially prefix-based URL allowlisting, insufficient request validation, broad permission examples, and potentially dangerous CSP/security-header removal rules. These issues should be corrected before production use; exact origin comparison and strict schema, size, method, and permission validation are recommended.