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Audio Equalizer

ID: aemjbieioebobglekneinkpijacjiohn

Could be malicious

Supported Languages

🇧🇩Bengali

🇧🇷Brazilian Portuguese

🇬🇧British English

🇧🇬Bulgarian

🇪🇸Catalan

🇨🇳Chinese (Simplified)

🇹🇼Chinese (Traditional)

🇭🇷Croatian

🇨🇿Czech

🇩🇰Danish

🇳🇱Dutch

🇺🇸English

🇪🇪Estonian

🇵🇭Filipino

🇫🇮Finnish

🇫🇷French

🇩🇪German

🇬🇷Greek

🇮🇳Gujarati

🇮🇳Hindi

🇭🇺Hungarian

🇮🇩Indonesian

🇮🇹Italian

🇯🇵Japanese

🇰🇷Korean

🇲🇽Latin American Spanish

🇱🇻Latvian

🇱🇹Lithuanian

🇲🇾Malay

🇮🇳Malayalam

🇮🇳Marathi

🇳🇴Norwegian

🇵🇱Polish

🇵🇹Portuguese

🇷🇴Romanian

🇷🇺Russian

🇷🇸Serbian

🇸🇰Slovak

🇸🇮Slovenian

🇪🇸Spanish

🇸🇪Swedish

🇮🇳Tamil

🇮🇳Telugu

🇹🇭Thai

🇹🇷Turkish

🇺🇦Ukrainian

🇺🇸US English

🇻🇳Vietnamese

Extension Info & Metadata

Status

Removed

Version

1.0.7

Size

0.25 MB

Rating

4.7/5

Reviews

1,175

Users

224,484

Type

Extension

Updated

Nov 25, 2020

Publisher Contextual Analysis

Author: DevAppView Profile
MX records exist: Yes
Domain exists: Yes
Is disposable: No
Is role-based: No
Mailbox exists: Yes

Total Extensions

Active

Obsolete

Listed

Unlisted

Total Users

224,484

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Audio Equalizer with the function of bass booster and with the settings of musical genres. Make the sound better!

Powerful and easy to use, classic audio equalizer with presets of music genres and Bass Booster function. Audio Equalizer allows improving the sound quality of your Chrome browser to get more pleasure from listening to music and watching videos. Extension includes: - Equalizer for 10 bands; - Audio Volume Control - to set the desired volume level; - Volume Booster - a significant increase in volume from the standard sound power; - Bass Booster preset - sound effect to enhance the bass sound; - Preset Vocal Booster - amplification of high frequencies of the sound; Audio equalizer will help you adjust the levels of sound effects, with which you can make the most of your speakers and headphones. Try to use this equalizer and get pleasure from its use. Get maximum pleasure from listening to music and watching videos online, using Audio Equalizer!

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Showing 2 of 3 scanned versions with more than one unique finding. Counts are unique findings that include each version.

Extension Version	Code Review Findings
1.0.8 Code review	3
1.0.7 Code review	5

Extension Version	Code Review Findings
1.0.8	3
1.0.7	5

Files with findings

4 distinct paths — top paths by unique finding count:

js/background.js3
manifest.json2
popup.js2
js/core.js1

S.No.	Category	Severity	File	Summary	Found in Version
1	Tracking	critical	js/background.js (line 460)	A message handler responds to an externally-triggerable 'getUid' method by returning the user's persistent unique identifier. Critically, it also increments a usage counter and, after 100 invocations, sets a 'valid' f…	1.0.7
2	Code Injection	high	popup.js (line 1124)	The extension writes the current tab title directly into the privileged popup DOM with `html()`. Because page titles are attacker-controlled, a malicious site could supply HTML markup and potentially trigger DOM-based…	1.0.8
3	Code Injection	high	manifest.json (line 15)	The manifest explicitly weakens the default Content Security Policy by including 'unsafe-eval', allowing the extension to execute dynamically-generated code via eval(), new Function(), setTimeout(string), etc. A legit…	1.0.7
4	Unauthorized Data Collection	high	popup.js (line 1037)	When the popup is opened and no audio stream is currently active, the extension automatically initiates tab audio capture (via 'powerOn') without any explicit user interaction — no button press required. Combined with…	1.0.7
5	Code Injection	medium	manifest.json (line 1)	The manifest explicitly enables `'unsafe-eval'` in the extension CSP, which weakens one of Chrome's main defenses against injected script execution. No direct `eval()` call was found in the first-party code reviewed, …	1.0.8
6	Tracking	medium	js/background.js (line 488)	The background page exposes a persistent `uid` over runtime messages and keeps request counters (`count`, `valid`) around that identifier. Elsewhere in the extension, this `uid` is generated once and stored persistent…	1.0.8
7	Unauthorized Data Collection	medium	js/background.js (line 665)	On installation, the extension silently generates and persists a unique user ID (via getUserID() which creates a UUID) alongside the install timestamp in chrome.storage.local. On updates, it also records the update ti…	1.0.7
8	Unauthorized Data Collection	medium	js/core.js (line 21)	The extension generates a cryptographically random UUID and stores it persistently in localStorage as 'uid'. This persistent identifier is then saved to chrome.storage.local as 'userId' at install time and is returned…	1.0.7

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www.w3.org	/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd	http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd
www.w3.org	/2000/svg	http://www.w3.org/2000/svg
chrome.google.com	/webstore/detail/audio-equalizer/aemjbieioebobglekneinkpijacjiohn	https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/audio-equalizer/aemjbieioebobglekneinkpijacjiohn
jquery.com	-	https://jquery.com/
sizzlejs.com	-	https://sizzlejs.com/
jquery.org	/license	https://jquery.org/license
github.com	/eslint/eslint/issues/6125	https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/6125
jquery.org	/license	http://jquery.org/license
jsperf.com	/thor-indexof-vs-for/5	https://jsperf.com/thor-indexof-vs-for/5
www.w3.org	/TR/css3-selectors/	http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#whitespace

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2.3.3.3	IPv4	-
2.3.3.1	IPv4	-

4.4 out of 5 · 10 most recent reviews

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its very nice

Rune Productions·6 May 2021

ดีมากเลยครับ

Nattapon Luesukhprasert·6 May 2021

nice

Tobias Olsen·6 May 2021

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Security Alert: Confirmed Malware

Audio Equalizer

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