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Our reviewer read this extension’s code and found no malicious behaviour. An automated risk flag was reviewed and overturned.
81 indicators in this extension
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What our analysis found
Highlight This: finds and marks words, used by 100,000 people, showed no malicious code in Extension Auditor's review. It comes from a trusted publisher and was last updated in March 2026.
Analyst notes
The extension is a legitimate text highlighting tool with disclosed monetization features (affiliate links and ad-supported version). Analytics are sent only to the publisher's own domain (first-party) and consist of non-personal usage data. The ad module operates within the advertised purpose and fetches configuration from a third-party ad network, but users opt into this by choosing the 'ad-supported' license. No covert data exfiltration, credential theft, or malicious code injection was found. The risk-engine and ML model over-flagged due to common patterns in content scripts and the 'offscreen' permission, which is used only for legitimate backup downloads.
Highlight This: finds and marks words Chrome extension security report
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Extension Info & Metadata
Publisher Contextual Analysis
- Author
- highlightthis.net
- Privacy
- Privacy Policy
- MX records exist
- Yes
- Domain exists
- Yes
- Is disposable
- No
- Is role-based
- No
- Mailbox exists
- Yes
- Website
- Visit
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Data Exfiltration
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
Unauthorized Data Collection
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
Network Interception
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
Code Injection
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
Credential Theft
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
Obfuscation
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
Tracking
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
Privilege Escalation
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
Phishing
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
Remote Code Loading
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
Other
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
81 indicators in this extension
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About this extension
Automatically finds and highlights words and phrases on the web page according to your list
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- No registration required - Organize your search words in groups and lists - Use Regular Expressions (Regex tokens) - All data stored locally - Auto-refreshes highlights on page reload and content changes - Unlimited words and lists - Synchronise lists between your browsers Highlight This! comes: - as a Free version, limited to 200 words and limited highlighting styles - an Unlimited version with affiliate partner link highlighting https://highlightthis.net/PartnerLinks.html - 2 paid versions. Easy to use Chrome Extension that automatically searches for defined words in the current browser tab and marks them in a text. Many more advanced features available through settings: - Create color-coded keyword lists - Disable highlighting on certain sites - Export or import your settings and keyword lists - Define click action - Use lists from Pastebin, Google Sheets Privacy Statement: https://highlightthis.net/Privacy.html EULA: https://highlightthis.net/EULA.pdf ** New in 6.3.10 - Fix: Issue with lookbehind regex ** New in 6.3.8 - Fix: Issue when extending license information ** New in 6.3.8 - Fix: Minor fix in detecting words after, or before, a forward-slash ** New in 6.3.7 - Fix: Minor fix in detecting words after lower quotation marks - Fix: Incorrect highlighting with Regular Expressions that contain \b ** New in 6.3.6 - Fix: lists are not sorted anymore - Fix: breaking highlights due to specific control for "flex" containers ** New in 6.3.4 - Fix: an issue with sequence of Regex words - Fix: an issue with invalid characters in a wordlist - New: You can now order lists of words to give priority in highlighting if there are duplicate words ** New in 6.3.3 - Fix: Complete words are not always correctly highlighted ** New in 6.3.2 - Improved: Word breaking symbols list has been extended ** New in 6.3.1 - Fix: zip file issue when installing extension ** New in 6.3 - New: Better support for languages which have no spaces or punctuation between words - New: Better support for languages with diacritics - Fixed: Sync with Google Sheets has been fixed ** New in 6.2.3 - New: You can now put a border around input fields if there is a matching word inside ** New in 6.2.2 - Fixed: a performance issue ** New in 6.2.1 - Fixed: an issue with highlighting in shadow-root elements ** New in 6.2 - New : Improved performance on large webpages - Fixed: an issue whereby words could disappear while filtering the list of words ** New in 6.1 - New: Make backups automatically - New: Open clicks on highights in new window or current tab ** New in 6.0.10 - Fixed: an issue with highlighting of web components - Fixed: an issue with look behind regular expressions ** New in 6.0.9 - New: Now also highlighting in Shadow DOM ** New in 6.0.8 - Fixed: an issue whereby lists cannot be opened to edit - Fixed: an issue on LinkedIn jobs ** New in 6.0.6 - Fixed: highlighting on Single Page Apps - New: Form to send a bug to the developer ** New in 6.0.5 - Fixed: issue with corrupted synchronized lists which breaks the rendering of the lists ** New in 6.0.4 - Fixed: issue with restoring backups - New: ability to reset all data and settings ** New in 6.0.1 - Fixed: issue with transforming Synchronized lists ** New in 6.0.0 - Extra styles for highlighting : Bold, Italic, Underline - Ability to change highligting by selecting rounded corners, padding, shadow - Ability to define a zone on a page for highlighting - Switch to Manifest v3, which better protects user security - Subscriptions - Fixed: speed of editor - Fixed: various small issues with remote lists ** New in 5.3.6 - Fixed: an issue with scrolling to highlight tags ** New in 5.3.5 - Fixed: Performance issues ** New in 5.2 - Define click actions for highlighted words - Support for loading words from Google Sheets - Define download frequency for remote lists - Fixed: Negative reverse lookup regex - Fixed: Issue with Highlight overview - Fixed: Issue with download button ** New in 5.1 - Support for case sensitive matching - Manage words from context menu ** New in 5.0 - New editor to manage your words (filter, select, delete, move) - Support for Regex tokens ** Define words ** Easily specify words and phrases you want to be highlighted. ** Highlighting ** Highlights the words and phrases on the page Shows how many words have been highlighted ** Works on Ajax pages ** The extension detects changes to the page and re-highlights the words.
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