A customizable wordpress widget that displays top or new COLOURLovers palettes or patterns on your site.

10 active installs v0.1 PHP + WP 2.8+ Updated Jan 2, 2011
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85
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CVEs total0
Unpatched0
Last CVENever
Safety Verdict

Is ColourPress Safe to Use in 2026?

Generally Safe

Score 85/100

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

No known CVEs Updated 15yr ago
Risk Assessment

The "colourpress-colourlovers-widget" plugin version 0.1 exhibits a concerning security posture despite having a minimal attack surface and no known historical vulnerabilities. The static analysis reveals a significant lack of proper output escaping, with 0% of the 20 identified output points being properly escaped. This is a critical weakness, as it indicates a high likelihood of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. While there are no detected dangerous functions, SQL injection risks, or external HTTP requests, the absence of any capability checks or nonce checks across the (albeit zero) identified entry points is also worrying. This suggests that even if new entry points were introduced, they might be unprotected. The complete absence of taint analysis results and vulnerability history is positive, but the pervasive output escaping issue overshadows this. Overall, the plugin is underdeveloped from a security perspective, primarily due to the severe lack of output sanitization, which presents a substantial risk of XSS attacks.

Key Concerns

  • 0% output escaping
  • No capability checks
  • No nonce checks
Vulnerabilities
None known

ColourPress Security Vulnerabilities

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

ColourPress Code Analysis

Dangerous Functions
0
Raw SQL Queries
0
0 prepared
Unescaped Output
20
0 escaped
Nonce Checks
0
Capability Checks
0
File Operations
0
External Requests
0
Bundled Libraries
0

Output Escaping

0% escaped20 total outputs
Attack Surface

ColourPress Attack Surface

Entry Points0
Unprotected0
WordPress Hooks 1
actionwidgets_initColourPress.php:225
Maintenance & Trust

ColourPress Maintenance & Trust

Maintenance Signals

WordPress version tested3.0.5
Last updatedJan 2, 2011
PHP min version
Downloads2K

Community Trust

Rating0/100
Number of ratings0
Active installs10
Developer Profile

ColourPress Developer Profile

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1 plugin · 10 total installs

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

How We Detect ColourPress

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

Asset Fingerprints

Asset Paths
/wp-content/plugins/colourpress-colourlovers-widget/ColourPressStyle.css

HTML / DOM Fingerprints

CSS Classes
ColourPress_widgetcl_resultswrappercolorblockname
Data Attributes
data-widget_typedata-original-widgetdata-widget-number
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about ColourPress