Chrome extensions that can read your cookies

Session cookies are often enough to enter an account without ever knowing the password. An extension that can read them can, in principle, act as you.

59
Extensions
20%
Share of tracked
392.7M
Combined installs

Holding a permission is not wrongdoing. A password manager needs access to every site; a screen recorder needs the tab. What matters is whether the access matches what the extension is for. These lists let you make that judgement yourself, which the store’s one-line warning does not.

Extensions holding read and write cookies

Other permissions

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Permissions are read from each extension’s published manifest, as of 2026-09-16. Counts cover the 295 extensions tracked so far, not the whole store.