Beautiful Social Widget Security & Risk Analysis

wordpress.org/plugins/beautiful-social-widget

With Beautiful Social Widget, you can link to your social media profile through Sidebar Widget.

10 active installs v1.5 PHP + WP 3.6.1+ Updated Jan 16, 2014
facebookgoogleplussocialtwitterwidget
85
A · Safe
CVEs total0
Unpatched0
Last CVENever
Safety Verdict

Is Beautiful Social Widget Safe to Use in 2026?

Generally Safe

Score 85/100

Beautiful Social Widget has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.

No known CVEs Updated 12yr ago
Risk Assessment

The static analysis of the 'beautiful-social-widget' plugin v1.5 reveals a generally good security posture, with no identified dangerous functions, SQL injection vulnerabilities, or file operations. The absence of external HTTP requests and bundled libraries is also a positive sign. However, a significant concern arises from the low percentage of properly escaped output (28%). This suggests a high risk of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, where malicious scripts could be injected and executed in users' browsers. The lack of any identified entry points (AJAX handlers, REST API routes, shortcodes, cron events) is a strong indicator of a reduced attack surface, and the absence of critical or high-severity taint flows further supports this. The plugin's vulnerability history is clean, with no recorded CVEs, which is excellent. Despite the promising lack of known vulnerabilities and a limited attack surface, the widespread unescaped output represents a substantial security weakness that could be exploited.

Key Concerns

  • Low percentage of properly escaped output
Vulnerabilities
None known

Beautiful Social Widget Security Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities — this is a good sign.
Code Analysis
Analyzed Mar 17, 2026

Beautiful Social Widget Code Analysis

Dangerous Functions
0
Raw SQL Queries
0
0 prepared
Unescaped Output
62
24 escaped
Nonce Checks
0
Capability Checks
0
File Operations
0
External Requests
0
Bundled Libraries
0

Output Escaping

28% escaped86 total outputs
Attack Surface

Beautiful Social Widget Attack Surface

Entry Points0
Unprotected0
WordPress Hooks 1
actionwidgets_initbeautiful-social-widget.php:13
Maintenance & Trust

Beautiful Social Widget Maintenance & Trust

Maintenance Signals

WordPress version tested3.7.41
Last updatedJan 16, 2014
PHP min version
Downloads2K

Community Trust

Rating80/100
Number of ratings1
Active installs10
Developer Profile

Beautiful Social Widget Developer Profile

Sudeep Acharya

1 plugin · 10 total installs

84
trust score
Avg Security Score
85/100
Avg Patch Time
30 days
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Detection Fingerprints

How We Detect Beautiful Social Widget

Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.

Asset Fingerprints

Asset Paths
/wp-content/plugins/beautiful-social-widget/css/style.css
Version Parameters
beautiful-social-widget/css/style.css?ver=

HTML / DOM Fingerprints

CSS Classes
widget_beautiful_social_widget
Data Attributes
id="bsw-content"id="bswfacebook"id="bswtwitter"id="bswgoogleplus"id="bswlinkedin"id="bswpinterest"+6 more
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about Beautiful Social Widget