Collab Notes Security & Risk Analysis

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Collab Notes allows administrators to add private notes to pages and posts, with customizable user role permissions.

30 active installs v1.3 PHP 7.2+ WP 5.6+ Updated Feb 5, 2025
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Safety Verdict

Is Collab Notes Safe to Use in 2026?

Generally Safe

Score 92/100

Collab Notes has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.

No known CVEs Updated 1yr ago
Risk Assessment

The collab-notes plugin v1.3 demonstrates a strong security posture based on the provided static analysis. The absence of any AJAX handlers, REST API routes, shortcodes, or cron events significantly limits the plugin's attack surface. The code analysis further indicates good development practices, with no dangerous functions, all SQL queries using prepared statements, and a high percentage of output correctly escaped. The presence of nonce and capability checks, although limited in number, is also a positive sign. The taint analysis showing zero unsanitized paths further reinforces the impression of secure code. The plugin's vulnerability history is exceptionally clean, with no recorded CVEs, which suggests a history of secure development and maintenance. Overall, this plugin appears to be well-developed and secure. The main area for potential minor concern would be the percentage of unescaped output, but at 12%, it's still within a reasonable range for a plugin of this nature, especially given the lack of other identified vulnerabilities.

Key Concerns

  • Unescaped output exists
Vulnerabilities
None known

Collab Notes Security Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities — this is a good sign.
Code Analysis
Analyzed Mar 16, 2026

Collab Notes Code Analysis

Dangerous Functions
0
Raw SQL Queries
0
0 prepared
Unescaped Output
2
15 escaped
Nonce Checks
2
Capability Checks
4
File Operations
0
External Requests
0
Bundled Libraries
0

Output Escaping

88% escaped17 total outputs
Data Flows
All sanitized

Data Flow Analysis

2 flows
collab_notes_render_settings_page (collab-notes.php:159)
Source (user input) Sink (dangerous op) Sanitizer Transform Unsanitized Sanitized
Attack Surface

Collab Notes Attack Surface

Entry Points0
Unprotected0
WordPress Hooks 7
actionadd_meta_boxescollab-notes.php:27
actionsave_postcollab-notes.php:64
filtermanage_posts_columnscollab-notes.php:71
filtermanage_pages_columnscollab-notes.php:72
actionmanage_posts_custom_columncollab-notes.php:83
actionmanage_pages_custom_columncollab-notes.php:84
actionadmin_menucollab-notes.php:108
Maintenance & Trust

Collab Notes Maintenance & Trust

Maintenance Signals

WordPress version tested6.7.5
Last updatedFeb 5, 2025
PHP min version7.2
Downloads733

Community Trust

Rating0/100
Number of ratings0
Active installs30
Developer Profile

Collab Notes Developer Profile

psartorio

1 plugin · 30 total installs

88
trust score
Avg Security Score
92/100
Avg Patch Time
30 days
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Detection Fingerprints

How We Detect Collab Notes

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

Asset Fingerprints

HTML / DOM Fingerprints

Data Attributes
data-collab-note
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about Collab Notes