Top 15 Browser Extensions For Hackers, Which Every Pentester Should Know.

Sagar Shewale
6 min readApr 4, 2023

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Hello dear hackers, how are you hope you all good. Today I’m back with another blog with intresting stuff, which will definitely make your life easier.

So today I’m going to introduce you top 15 browser extension which every hacker loves it, and it will make your life more easier than before.

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1. Foxyproxy Standard

Foxyproxy Standard

Foxy proxy is the browser extension which helps you to connect any proxy server. this extension act as a proxy agent between client and proxy server

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Available for :

Chrome & Firefox

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2. Multi-Account Containers

Multi-Account Containers

Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you keep parts of your online life separated into color-coded tabs. Cookies are separated by container, allowing you to use the web with multiple accounts and integrate Mozilla VPN for an extra layer of privacy.

Available for :

Firefox

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3. Pwnfox

Pwnfox

Pwnfox is browser extension which is available for firefox. Basically this extension is combination of Foxyproxy & Multi-Account Containers.

It also provides you useful tools for your security auditing, like

  • PostMessage Logger
    - Toolbox injection
    - Security header remover

👉 Source Code

Available for :

Firefox

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4. HackBar V2

HackBar V2 (Firefox)
HackBar (Chrome)

HackBar is a security audit tool that will enable you to pentest websites more easily. … You can use it to check site security by performing SQL injections, XSS holes and more. It also has a user-friendly interface that makes it easy for you to do fuzz testing, hash generation, encoding and more.

Hackbar tools have some features

  • LiveHTTPHeader
  • Tamper Data
  • View Source
  • JS on/off
  • noRedirect
  • HTTP Proxy
  • Admin Finder

👉 Source code

Available for :

Chrome & Firefox

Check Some Hackbar MOD Extensions.

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5. Hack-Tools

Hack-Tools

Hack tools is a we browser extension which included all types of payloads, useful, linux command powershell command, tty shell command, basic XSS payloads and much more !!!

Current functions:

  • Dynamic Reverse Shell generator (PHP, Bash, Ruby, Python, Perl, Netcat)
  • Shell Spawning (TTY Shell Spawning)
  • MSF Venom Builder
  • XSS Payloads
  • Basic SQLi payloads
  • Local file inclusion payloads (LFI)
  • Data Encoding
  • Obfuscated Files or Information
  • Hash Generator (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512, SM3)
  • Useful Linux commands (Port Forwarding, SUID)
  • RSS Feed (Exploit DB, Cisco Security Advisories, CXSECURITY)
  • CVE Search Engine
  • Various method of data exfiltration and download from a remote machine

Available for :

Chrome & Firefox

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6. Shodan

Shodan

The Shodan plugin tells you where the website is hosted (country, city), who owns the IP and what other services/ ports are open.

The Shodan plugin for Chrome automatically checks whether Shodan has any information for the current website. Is the website also running FTP, DNS, SSH or some unusual service? With this plugin you can see all the info that Shodan has collected on a given website/ domain.

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Available for :

Chrome & Firefox

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7. uBlock Origin

uBlock Origin

uBlock Origin is a free and open-source browser extension for content filtering, including ad blocking.

It’s a wide-spectrum content blocker with CPU and memory efficiency as a primary feature

  • uBlock Origin filter lists
  • EasyList (ads)
  • EasyPrivacy (tracking)
  • Peter Lowe’s Ad server list (ads and tracking)
  • Online Malicious URL Blocklist

👉 Website

Available for :

Chrome & Firefox

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8. Wappalyzer

Wappalyzer

Find out the technology stack of any website. Create lists of websites that use certain technologies, with company and contact details. Use our tools for lead generation, market analysis and competitor research.

👉 Website

Available for :

Chrome & Firefox

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9.WhatCms

WhatCms

WhatCms is a CMS (Content management system) detector, which detect what type of CMS is available on site

👉 Website

Available for :

Chrome & Firefox

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10. Cookie editor

Cookie editor

Cookie-Editor is designed to have a simple to use interface that let you do most standard cookie operations. It is ideal for developing and testing web pages or even manual management of cookies for your privacy.

Available for :

Chrome & Firefox

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11. DotGit

DotGit

An extension for checking if .git is exposed in visited websites

  • An extension for checking if .git is exposed in visited websites
  • Check if a .git/.svn/.hg folder exists for each site you visit
  • Check if a .env file exists for each site you visit
  • Check if the site is open source (github/gitlab)
  • Check if the site has security.txt
  • You will be notified when a folder is found
  • List of exposed sites found
  • Download the entire .git folder in zip format, even if the files are not listed on the site
  • View .git/config with one click
  • Options for: colors, notifications and downloads
  • Source code: Link

👉 dotgit documentation

👉 Python Project

Available for :

Chrome & Firefox

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12. Note Anywhere

Note Anywhere

Note Anywhere is a simple note keeping extension, which is use to take notes

I’ts absolutely like windows notepad

Available for :

Chrome & Firefox

( In chrome available as “Note Anywhere” & In firefox available as “OurStickys” )

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13. Hunter — Email Finder Extension

Hunter — Email Finder Extension

Find email addresses from anywhere on the web, with just one click. The email addresses are marked verified or returned with confidence scores. If an email address is not verified yet, you can do it by clicking the checkmark icon next to it.

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Available for :

Chrome & Firefox

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14. retire.js

retire.js

Scan a web app for use of vulnerable JavaScript libraries. The goal of retire.js is to help you detect use of version with known vulnerabilities.

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Available for :

Chrome & Firefox

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15. Blackbox — Select. Copy. Paste & Search

Blackbox — Select. Copy. Paste & Search

Fastest Way to Copy Text from Videos & Images

Fastest Way to Copy Code from Videos & Images and Search for Code Snippets from Jupyter or Paperspace.

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Available for :

Chrome & Firefox

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Sagar Shewale
Sagar Shewale

Written by Sagar Shewale

Penetration Testing | Linux | CTF | Hacking | OSINT | Bug Bounty Hunting

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