
Contextual Adminbar Color Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/contextual-adminbar-colorUse custom admin bar colors and favicons to differentiate your environments (staging/prod)
Is Contextual Adminbar Color Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 100/100Contextual Adminbar Color has a strong security track record. Known vulnerabilities have been patched promptly.
The contextual-adminbar-color plugin v0.3.1 exhibits a generally positive security posture based on the provided static analysis. The absence of any detected dangerous functions, external HTTP requests, file operations, or SQL queries without prepared statements are significant strengths. Furthermore, the complete lack of untainted flows and the presence of nonce checks are encouraging indicators of secure coding practices. However, the plugin's history of a medium-severity Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, though patched, suggests that input sanitization and output escaping, even when seemingly sufficient, warrant careful attention. While the current static analysis indicates good output escaping (75% properly escaped), the past vulnerability implies a potential for subtle oversight in specific output contexts. The lack of capability checks on entry points, though currently minimal due to a small attack surface, could become a concern if the plugin's functionality expands without corresponding security enhancements.
Key Concerns
- Past medium severity XSS vulnerability
- Only 75% of outputs properly escaped
- No capability checks on entry points
Contextual Adminbar Color Security Vulnerabilities
CVEs by Year
Severity Breakdown
1 total CVE
Contextual Adminbar Color <= 0.2 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Contextual Adminbar Color Code Analysis
Output Escaping
Data Flow Analysis
Contextual Adminbar Color Attack Surface
WordPress Hooks 7
Maintenance & Trust
Contextual Adminbar Color Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
Contextual Adminbar Color Alternatives
Default Admin Color Scheme
default-admin-color-scheme
Select a default admin color scheme for new and existing users. Optionally disable the color scheme picker to force a color scheme for all users.
Force Admin Color Scheme
force-admin-color-scheme
Force a single admin color scheme for all users of the site.
Grey Admin Color Schemes
grey-admin-color-schemes
Grey color schemes for WordPress 3.8's admin area.
Colorize Admin
colorize-admin
This is a simple plugin that will make your wp admin panel theme much more pleasant for work.
Easy Backend-Style
easybackendstyle
This plugin allows you to easily customize the colors in the backend. The changes are easily made via predefined fields.
Contextual Adminbar Color Developer Profile
24 plugins · 64K total installs
How We Detect Contextual Adminbar Color
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
/wp-content/plugins/contextual-adminbar-color/css//wp-content/plugins/contextual-adminbar-color/images/favicons/HTML / DOM Fingerprints
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