firefox-extension-video-download-helper

LOW

maintainer mutoroglin 3 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .xpi extension from Mozilla's official add-ons domain (addons.mozilla.org), which is a standard and trusted source for Firefox extensions; the non-whitelisted host is a false positive as the domain is legitimate for this use case.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .xpi extension from Mozilla's official add-ons domain (addons.mozilla.org), which is a standard and trusted source for Firefox extensions; the non-whitelisted host is a false positive as the domain is legitimate for this use case.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

Medium source=() URL on a non-standard host source_untrusted_domain

One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).

PKGBUILD:22 source=("license.html::https://help.downloadhelper.net/article/6-what-is-vdh"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Joerg Weislogel mutoroglin [at] posteo [dot] de
    
      2# Contributor: Felix Golatofski contact [at] xdfr [dot] de
    
      3# Contributor: nicoulaj julien.nicoulaud [at] gmail [dot] com
    
      4
    
      5# query latest version with:
    
      6# curl -s 'https://addons.mozilla.org/api/v5/addons/addon/video-downloadhelper/' | jq -r '.current_version.version'
    
      7# query link to latest version with:
    
      8# curl -s 'https://addons.mozilla.org/api/v5/addons/addon/video-downloadhelper/' | jq -r '.current_version.file.url'
    
      9
    
      10
    
      11pkgname=firefox-extension-video-download-helper
    
      12pkgver=10.6.7.2
    
      13pkgrel=1
    
      14pkgdesc='The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites.'
    
      15arch=('any')
    
      16url='https://www.downloadhelper.net'
    
      17license=('LicenseRef-proprietary')
    
      18depends=('firefox')
    
      19groups=('firefox-addons')
    
      20optdepends=('vdhcoapp: companion app, see https://www.downloadhelper.net/install-coapp'
    
      21            'vdhcoapp-bin: companion app (binary version)')
    
      22source=("license.html::https://help.downloadhelper.net/article/6-what-is-vdh"
    
      23        "extension_${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.xpi::https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/5146939/video_downloadhelper-${pkgver}.xpi")
    
      24noextract=("usage_conditions.html"
    
      25           "extension_${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.xpi")
    
      26sha256sums=(SKIP
    
      27            'abcddad43a3e5f9585078a52e95d938664a01cc1a1aeb32fad1d3bdfd6df56c2')
    
      28
    
      29package() {
    
      30  install -Dm644 extension_${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.xpi "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/firefox/browser/extensions/{b9db16a4-6edc-47ec-a1f4-b86292ed211d}.xpi"
    
      31  install -Dm644 license.html "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE.html"
    
      32}
    
      33

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-10-24 00:14
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-11-01 00:21
@@ -2,8 +2,14 @@
 # Contributor: Felix Golatofski contact [at] xdfr [dot] de
 # Contributor: nicoulaj julien.nicoulaud [at] gmail [dot] com
 
+# query latest version with:
+# curl -s 'https://addons.mozilla.org/api/v5/addons/addon/video-downloadhelper/' | jq -r '.current_version.version'
+# query link to latest version with:
+# curl -s 'https://addons.mozilla.org/api/v5/addons/addon/video-downloadhelper/' | jq -r '.current_version.file.url'
+
+
 pkgname=firefox-extension-video-download-helper
-pkgver=10.6.1.2
+pkgver=10.6.7.2
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites.'
 arch=('any')
@@ -14,12 +20,11 @@
 optdepends=('vdhcoapp: companion app, see https://www.downloadhelper.net/install-coapp'
             'vdhcoapp-bin: companion app (binary version)')
 source=("license.html::https://help.downloadhelper.net/article/6-what-is-vdh"
-        "extension_${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.xpi::https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/5098021/video_downloadhelper-${pkgver}.xpi")
-
+        "extension_${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.xpi::https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/5146939/video_downloadhelper-${pkgver}.xpi")
 noextract=("usage_conditions.html"
            "extension_${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.xpi")
 sha256sums=(SKIP
-            '81652b53dac2aa56ce3b9608ac25c5974a1844eab54fa747168520997d05d1c9')
+            'abcddad43a3e5f9585078a52e95d938664a01cc1a1aeb32fad1d3bdfd6df56c2')
 
 package() {
   install -Dm644 extension_${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.xpi "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/firefox/browser/extensions/{b9db16a4-6edc-47ec-a1f4-b86292ed211d}.xpi"

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Low	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Low	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Low	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Low	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Low	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Low	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Low	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Low	2
2026-10-24 09:40:04	Medium	1
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Low	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Low	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Low	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Low	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Low	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Low	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Low	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Low	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Low	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Low	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Low	2