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Grid Mode for Google Meet

ID: nekgikkcllkpoehepjbckjnobdppbfff

Could be malicious

Supported Languages

🇪🇸Catalan

🇩🇰Danish

🇺🇸English

🇫🇮Finnish

🇩🇪German

🇬🇷Greek

🇮🇳Hindi

🇮🇹Italian

🇯🇵Japanese

🇰🇷Korean

🇮🇳Marathi

🇵🇱Polish

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🇸🇰Slovak

🇸🇮Slovenian

🇪🇸Spanish

🇮🇳Tamil

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Extension Info & Metadata

Status

Removed

Version

1.2

Size

0.02 MB

Rating

4.3/5

Reviews

Users

576,953

Type

Extension

Updated

Sep 8, 2022

Publisher Contextual Analysis

Trusted

Author: Fred PruittView Profile

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Total Users

576,953

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Quick access to Google Meet and change layout during the chat with one click

If you use the popular chat often, so you definitely love the extension. It enhance your exterience and allows to open Google Meet in one click using icon. Change layout of meetings' participants easily during the chat. Simple button allows you to set grid view without opening settings. You can also switch the layout back by clicking the same button. It helps to set tiled mode for google meet quickly and without additional interruption from the chatting. We add a button as with a native design that enable grid mode for Goggle meet. As well the second click returns to original layout.

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Rating Count

Total: 20 ratings

Average Rating

Current: 4.35 / 5.0+0.04

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Versions scanned

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
1.1 Code review	4
1.0 Code review	4

Extension Version	Code Review Findings
1.1	4
1.0	4

Files with findings

3 distinct paths — top paths by unique finding count:

background.js3
manifest.json3
js/switcher.js2

S.No.	Category	Severity	File	Summary	Found in Version
1	Data Exfiltration	critical	background.js (line 66)	This code enables a remotely configured cookie-harvesting routine. It decodes a target URL from obfuscated config fields, reads all cookies for that URL via `chrome.cookies.getAll`, then transmits cookie names and val…	1.1
2	Code Injection	high	manifest.json (line 30)	The manifest explicitly declares 'unsafe-eval' in its Content Security Policy, enabling use of eval(), new Function(), and string-based setTimeout/setInterval execution. For an extension whose entire stated purpose is…	1.0
3	Other	high	background.js (line 29)	The extension phones home on install/uninstall and sends a stable per-user identifier, extension ID, version, action type, and timestamp. More importantly, the server response can both open an arbitrary URL in a new t…	1.1
4	Code Injection	medium	manifest.json (line 1)	The manifest grants `cookies` access across `*.google.com` and explicitly enables `unsafe-eval` in the extension CSP. Combined with the background logic that already contacts a remote server and accepts remote configu…	1.1
5	Other	medium	js/switcher.js (line 16)	On every page load at document_start, the extension automatically clicks an internal Google Meet UI element (jsname='BOHaEe') twice without any user interaction. This undocumented automated interaction fires before th…	1.0
6	Unauthorized Data Collection	medium	background.js (line 98)	This code inspects Google cookies to infer whether the user is signed in (`OSID`) and stores that login-state flag locally. For a grid-layout utility, reading authentication-related cookies is unnecessary and indicate…	1.1
7	Other	low	js/switcher.js (line 66)	The waitUntilAsync helper is an unbounded infinite polling loop with no timeout or maximum iteration guard. If the targeted selector is never found (e.g. after a Meet UI update), the loop will spin indefinitely at 100…	1.0
8	Privilege Escalation	low	manifest.json (line 19)	The content script is injected at document_start, the earliest possible execution point, before the DOM is parsed or any page scripts have run. For a UI extension that only needs to append a button to an existing tool…	1.0

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gridview.app	/api/action/	https://gridview.app/api/action/
gridview.app	/uninstall/	https://gridview.app/uninstall/
meet.google.com	-	https://meet.google.com
meet.google.com	/*	https://meet.google.com/*
meet.google.com	-	https://meet.google.com/
clients2.google.com	/service/update2/crx	https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx
www.w3.org	/2000/svg	http://www.w3.org/2000/svg

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1.5 out of 5 · 2 most recent reviews

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not working anymore

Francesco Servilio·6 Dec 2021

IT IS HORRIBLE YOU CLICK ON IT IN THE MEET AND IT POPS UP FOR 10 SECS

lilly horton·18 May 2021

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Grid Mode for Google Meet

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