# cors-plugin

> A simple add-on/plugin to allow developers who might want to make cross origin requests to their APIs from localhost

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/cors-plugin](https://chrome-stats.com/d/cors-plugin)

## Overview

- **ID:** `cors-plugin`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Raghudevan
- **Category:** web-development
- **Daily users:** 129
- **Rating:** 3.75 / 5 (4 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.1resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-26
- **First published:** 2018-10-02
- **Size:** 3.37 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cors-plugin/)
- **Website:** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/raghudevan-shankar/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/raghudevan-shankar/)

## Description

cors-plugin is a Firefox add-on that provides developers with the ability to easily make cross-origin requests to their APIs from localhost. It features a switch to enable/disable the add-on, options to add custom headers and URLs to match for intercepting requests/responses, and seamless support for cross-origin resource sharing requests.

## Rankings

- #10,232 — Overall
- #11 — plugin
- #26 — plug
- #130 — course
- #198 — request
- #218 — input

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension website URL may be invalid

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