# CredScanner

> Cred Scanner detects and alerts you about exposed API keys, authentication tokens, database credentials, and other sensitive information on web pages in real time

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `credscanner`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** CredScanner
- **Category:** privacy-security,search-tools,alerts-updates
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-03-21
- **First published:** 2025-03-21
- **Size:** 8.45 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/credscanner/)

## Description

CredScanner is a security-focused browser extension that automatically scans web pages for sensitive credentials such as API keys, access tokens, passwords, and database connection strings.

<code>•   🚀 Automatic Scanning: Runs silently in the background and scans all visited web pages.
•   🔍 Finds Hidden Secrets: Detects exposed credentials in the page source.
•   🚨 Real-Time Alerts: If secrets are found, it shows an alert and logs details in the console.
•   🛡 Privacy-Friendly: Does not collect any data or send information to external servers.
</code>

## Rankings

- #128,393 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<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 has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/credscanner)