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Our reviewer found behaviour consistent with malware, but not enough to confirm it. Treat this extension as untrusted until it has been re-reviewed.

1 medium-severity finding in this extension’s code

1 medium
2 indicators
2 versions analysed

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What our analysis found

Get Weather Today, used by 40,000 people, is rated caution by Extension Auditor. Our code review reported 1 finding (1 medium), led by other. It comes from a trusted publisher and was last updated in October 2025.

Key findings

  • Medium

    Other

    The extension's entire behaviour is a default-search takeover: sets `chrome_settings_overrides.search_provider` to `[domain withheld]}` with `is_default: true` and `incognito: spanning`, and this file propagates that third-party domain into every privacy, terms, uninstall and hub link the popup opens. `[domain withheld]` matches neither the listed `getweather.today` privacy-policy domain nor the publisher website field (a CWS badge help page), so every search query, including incognito ones, is routed through a domain with no first-party relationship to the publisher's disclosed identity, carrying an id. No weather code exists in the bundle, contradicting the 'weather results in your omnibox, powered by Yahoo' listing.

Analyst notes

The bundle contains no weather functionality at all. Its only real behaviour is 's `chrome_settings_overrides.search_provider` with `is_default: true` hijacking default search to `[domain withheld]` with a id (`s=c9pr`), plus `incognito: spanning`, while:31-50 derives every user-facing link (privacy, terms, uninstall, hub) from that same `[domain withheld]` domain rather than the `getweather.today` domain the CWS listing advertises, and the listing claims results are 'powered by Yahoo'. The ML regex hits are all benign on inspection (innerHTML is popup templating at:252, the encoded strings are the `weather_list` cookie, are jQuery internals, the http links are SVG `xmlns` attributes), so the 0.86 score is right for the wrong reasons; chrome-stats independently flags `permission-override-search-provider` and the publisher is feed-flagged, which corroborates search monetisation, while our risk engine's 0.00 and the single `cookies` optional permission contradict any data-theft reading. The published-manifest summary omits `chrome_settings_overrides` and `optional_host_permissions`, but it also omits name, version, background and homepage, so it is a partial projection and not a genuine mismatch; `slick. ` ships in the CRX per but was not extracted into the bundle, which caps confidence at medium. Two hygiene issues (unescaped server-writable cookie data into innerHTML at:252, neutered by the MV3 `script-src 'self'` CSP, and `onMessageExternal` at:17 with no sender check letting any installed extension close popup windows) are noted here rather than logged as findings.

Get Weather Today

Get Weather Today Chrome extension security report

ID: depnaiojakmmjcdpccbffphcgjghniol

Supported Languages

🇺🇸English

Extension Info & Metadata

Status
Active
Version
3.0.4
Size
0.22 MB
Rating
3.9/5
Reviews
37
Users
40,000
Type
Extension
Updated
Oct 1, 2025
Category
Tools
Price
Free
Featured
Yes
Visibility
Listed
Mature
No
By Google
No
Trusted
Yes
This publisherTrack record
1extension
All still listed

Publisher Contextual Analysis

Trusted
Author
getweather.today
MX records exist
Yes
Domain exists
Yes
Is disposable
No
Is role-based
No
Mailbox exists
Yes
Website
Visit
Extensions
1
Active
1
Obsolete
0
Listed
1
Unlisted
0
Users
40,000

Email Change History

1 change
May 24, 2024
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Install growth

This extension requests no permissions and has no recorded risk factors.

  • 1 medium

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1 medium-severity finding in this extension’s code

1 medium
2 indicators
2 versions analysed

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About this extension

Default search extension that enables weather results in your omnibox, powered by Yahoo.

Read the publisher’s full description

Are you a weather enthusiast like us? We thought so—that’s why we designed this extension for you. With just a quick search, you can bring weather results right to your fingertips. After installing the extension, simply type the name of any city in the address bar, and this smart weather tool will instantly show you the weather information for your chosen location. The extension is powered by Yahoo’s search results, which requires setting our search domain as your default provider, also powered by Yahoo Privacy: https://www.getweather.today/privacy Terms: https://getweather.today/terms FAQ: https://www.getweather.today/#faqs Contact: https://www.getweather.today/contact Uninstall: https://www.getweather.today/uninstall

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1 medium-severity finding in this extension’s code

1 medium
2 indicators
2 versions analysed

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Verdict
Findings
Permhash
3.0.4
Latest
0.22 MBCaution0N/A
3.0.0
0.21 MBCaution0N/A
3.0.2
0.21 MBNot scanned—N/A
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