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Sidebar for DuckDuckGo

ID: ndnbdkeggboaahplbpejcglngblaeblo

Could be malicious

Supported Languages

🇺🇸English

Extension Info & Metadata

Status

Removed

Version

1.1.0

Size

0.08 MB

Rating

3.9/5

Reviews

Users

4,739

Type

Extension

Updated

Dec 5, 2014

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Author: WiigwagView Profile

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Total Users

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Sidebar for DuckDuckGo with Wiktionary, Wikipedia, Flickr and YouTube Results

Google Chrome extension adding a sidebar next to any DuckDuckGo search with results from Wiktionary (dictionary), Wikipedia, Flickr and YouTube. With options to enable/disable selected services in the sidebar as well as set their positions to suit your taste, and the capability to set the maximum number of YouTube videos you want to see.

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Extension Version	Code Review Findings
1.1.0 Code review	7

Extension Version	Code Review Findings
1.1.0	7

Files with findings

3 distinct paths — top paths by unique finding count:

script.js4
background.js2
options.js1

S.No.	Category	Severity	File	Summary	Found in Version
1	Code Injection	high	options.js (line 65)	User-controlled data from localStorage (service name and description fields parsed from a JSON string) is interpolated directly into an HTML string and injected into the DOM via jQuery's append(). If an attacker can w…	1.1.0
2	Code Injection	high	script.js (line 119)	Twitter API response data (result.text, result.from_user, result.created_at) is concatenated directly into an HTML string without sanitization and injected via jQuery.append(). An attacker-controlled tweet containing …	1.1.0
3	Code Injection	medium	script.js (line 80)	YouTube API response fields (title, description, video_url, thumb_url) are interpolated directly into an HTML string without escaping and injected via jQuery.append(). A malicious or compromised YouTube API response c…	1.1.0
4	Code Injection	medium	script.js (line 36)	The search query q is injected unsanitized into an HTML h2 element and into href URL attributes. Although a basic HTML-strip regex is applied to the Wikipedia API content before insertion, the regex has correctness is…	1.1.0
5	Network Interception	medium	background.js (line 36)	The background script makes outbound HTTP requests to multiple third-party endpoints (dictionary-lookup.org, Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube) using user-supplied search queries appended directly to URLs without encoding. T…	1.1.0
6	Unauthorized Data Collection	medium	script.js (line 247)	The extension reads the current page's search query from a DOM input element on the DuckDuckGo page, then sends it to external third-party services (Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube, Wiktionary) via the background script. E…	1.1.0
7	Unauthorized Data Collection	low	background.js (line 56)	User preference data stored in localStorage (sidebar size, enabled services, video count) is read and passed back to content scripts via the message listener without any validation of the requesting sender. Any conten…	1.1.0

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dictionary-lookup.org	-	http://dictionary-lookup.org/
en.wikipedia.org	/w/api.php	http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&prop=text&format=json&page=
api.flickr.com	/services/rest	https://api.flickr.com/services/rest?method=flickr.photos.search&api_key=33db8eb821f12753b480df732f0e3b11&text=
gdata.youtube.com	/feeds/videos	http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/videos?max-results=10&alt=json&vq=
search.twitter.com	/search.json	http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=
clients2.google.com	/service/update2/crx	https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx
duckduckgo.com	/*	http://duckduckgo.com/*
duckduckgo.com	/*	https://duckduckgo.com/*
dictionary-lookup.org	/*	http://dictionary-lookup.org/*
en.wikipedia.org	/*	http://en.wikipedia.org/*

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3.4 out of 5 · 5 most recent reviews

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best app search engine ever i love it! Darrell E. Raines

Darrell Rainez·23 Aug 2020

Doesn't work

Jens Steffen·23 Oct 2019

日本語対応希望!! 動画とwikiが出てこない

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ヨッシー·14 Aug 2016

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