
Customize Widgets Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/customize-widgetsToo many widgets cluttering up your wordpress install? This plugin allows you to hide unwanted widgets from the Appearance > Widgets panel, and any …
Is Customize Widgets Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 85/100Customize Widgets has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The customize-widgets plugin version 1.0 exhibits a generally good security posture due to the absence of known vulnerabilities and a clean taint analysis. The plugin also avoids common pitfalls like raw SQL queries and dangerous functions. However, a significant concern arises from the complete lack of output escaping, meaning any data output by the plugin is not properly sanitized. While there are no direct indications of exploitable vulnerabilities from the static analysis, this widespread lack of escaping presents a substantial risk for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks if any user-controlled data is ever processed and displayed by the plugin. The limited attack surface and capability checks are positive, but the unescaped output is a critical weakness that requires immediate attention.
Key Concerns
- 0% output escaping
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Maintenance & Trust
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Customize Widgets Developer Profile
2 plugins · 20 total installs
How We Detect Customize Widgets
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
/wp-content/plugins/customize-widgets/style.cssHTML / DOM Fingerprints
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