
Block User Account Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/block-user-accountBlock, manage, and monitor user accounts with temporary or permanent restrictions, custom messages, email notifications, and activity logs.
Is Block User Account Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 100/100Block User Account has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The 'block-user-account' v1.4 plugin exhibits a generally strong security posture based on the provided static analysis. The complete absence of a discernible attack surface, including AJAX handlers, REST API routes, shortcodes, and cron events, is a significant positive. Furthermore, the plugin demonstrates good practices by exclusively using prepared statements for its SQL queries and avoiding file operations and external HTTP requests. The presence of capability checks, even without explicit mention of nonce checks, suggests some level of access control is implemented.
However, a notable concern arises from the output escaping. With 50% of outputs not properly escaped, there is a risk of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities if user-supplied data is reflected directly in the output without sanitization. The lack of any taint analysis results is also interesting; it could indicate a very limited data flow or potentially that the analysis tools were not able to fully assess it. The plugin's history of zero vulnerabilities, across all severities and types, is highly commendable and suggests a commitment to secure coding practices. This, combined with the lack of an attack surface, points to a plugin that is likely very lightweight and focused. The primary weakness lies in the potential for XSS due to incomplete output escaping, which, while not a critical or high-severity finding on its own without further context, is the most concrete risk identified.
Key Concerns
- 50% of outputs not properly escaped
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Block User Account Developer Profile
2 plugins · 1K total installs
How We Detect Block User Account
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
/wp-content/plugins/block-user-account/css/style.cssHTML / DOM Fingerprints
bua-toggle-switchbua-toggle-slidertgluser-status-deactiveuser-status-activeid="block_user"name="user_status"id="user_status"name="user_status_message"id="user_status_message"