Firefox: Add-on security vulnerability announcement

[paf]

Add-on security vulnerability announcement

One malicious add-on and another add-on with a serious security vulnerability were discovered recently on the Mozilla Add-ons site. Both issues have been dealt with, and the details are described below.
Mozilla Sniffer
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CoolPreviews
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[leofelix]

Thank you Paf
a very imprtant news
I'm lucky I do not use none of the above mentioned FF addons

[INDRANIL]

Thanks for the valuable info paf . I also don't use them.

[safeguy]

Mozilla Sniffer? I've never heard of that one before. CoolPreviews? I know this one...it's quite 'popular' but I didn't use it cause I find that the add-on simply waste bandwidth