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Chrome Ad Blocker with 10M+ Installs Found with Dormant Script Injection Capability

ID: 4dac24c7-ca6c-5ca8-944c-21f543e70591

STIX ID: report--4dac24c7-ca6c-5ca8-944c-21f543e70591

Feed Name: The Hacker News

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2026-06-25

Date Updated: 2026-06-25

Author: [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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**Adblock for YouTube**, a Chrome extension with over 10 million installs, was found to include a remote-controlled script-injection capability (a dormant "trusted-create-element" rule) that could enable arbitrary JavaScript execution on any site via a server-side change without an update or store review, posing significant risk to user data and sessions despite no observed active exploitation.

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