Question:
Why are apps allowed in the Wix marketplace that claim they can access, change, or even delete all of my website data? This includes sensitive visitor and financial info. How is this being monitored for user safety?
Product:
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Attached is the disclaimer screenshot, Read the very first sentence! Shocking! How is this even allowed on Wix? That just says a LOT about Wix.
It’s like any other platform offering installation of apps that require certain permissions
If you try uploading a picture to Instagram for the first time after having downloaded the app, it’ll ask you for permission to access your phone’s photo library - With an untrustworthy developer, that’d mean viewing your entire collection
This app, whatever it does, requires permission to change data, and that permission, since it is not fine-grained, is large in its scope, and would ultimately allow any behavior such as what’s listed in the picture you provided. Does the app do that? Probably not, but it potentially CAN, so use it at your own risk, perhaps clone your site
I wouldn’t say it says a lot about Wix - Perhaps Wix should create better access controls, but the APIs are what they are currently.
