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Google Bans JSONView – Extension Contains a Serious Security Vulnerability

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Post by mboroi » Thu, Nov 10, 2016, 10:37 PM UTC

Google Bans JSONView – Extension Contains a Serious Security Vulnerability
jsonview.com

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#2

Post by mboroi » Thu, Nov 10, 2016, 10:41 PM UTC

I attempted to load something and realized the extension I had just previously been using stopped working. [screenshot of the disabled extension](http://imgur.com/jBmnwf4)

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Post by mboroi » Thu, Nov 10, 2016, 10:46 PM UTC

mboroi wrote: post #2

I attempted to load something and realized the extension I had just previously been using stopped working. [screenshot of the disabled extension]( http://imgur.com/jBmnwf4 )

The link from Ben Hollis's site, https://jsonview.com/, to the Alternative/Unofficial JSONView for Chrome 404's.

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Post by theSquid » Thu, Nov 10, 2016, 10:55 PM UTC

Do we have more information about this? Is Google correct and should we switch to something else?

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Post by elgaricimo » Fri, Nov 11, 2016, 12:56 AM UTC

Annoying...doesn't seem to be working on firefox either... for the time being, use this as a work around http://codebeautify.org/jsonviewer ...

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 11, 2016, 2:41 AM UTC

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#7

Post by 5aurabh » Fri, Nov 11, 2016, 5:19 AM UTC

But it's still available on chrome web store https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jsonview/nckmconeh...

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Post by 0xkd » Fri, Nov 11, 2016, 6:51 AM UTC

Decent alternative https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/json-viewer/gbmdgp...

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Post by rhodrid » Fri, Nov 11, 2016, 12:10 PM UTC

I'd really like to know more information about the vulnerability but can't seem to find anything online.

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Post by mboroi » Fri, Nov 11, 2016, 12:41 PM UTC

5aurabh wrote: post #7

But it's still available on chrome web store https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jsonview/nckmconeh...

It seems this version by Ark may have been a copy, in their description they point to the "original", https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jsonview/chklaanhf..., which directs to the version claimed to have a security vulnerability and appears to have been pulled.