
Dashboard Navigator Security & Risk Analysis
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Is Dashboard Navigator Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 100/100Dashboard Navigator has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The "dashnav" v1.0.0 plugin exhibits a strong security posture based on the provided static analysis and vulnerability history. The code analysis reveals a complete absence of exploitable attack surface through AJAX handlers, REST API routes, shortcodes, or cron events, with all identified entry points being protected. Furthermore, the plugin demonstrates excellent coding practices by using prepared statements for all SQL queries and properly escaping all output. The presence of a nonce check and a capability check further reinforces its secure design. The taint analysis shows no identified flows with unsanitized paths, indicating no immediate concerns for code injection or similar vulnerabilities. The vulnerability history is also entirely clean, with no recorded CVEs, suggesting a stable and well-maintained codebase. The plugin's strength lies in its minimal attack surface and robust implementation of core security features like prepared statements and output escaping. A potential area for consideration is the very limited functionality suggested by the zero entry points, which might indicate it's a simple utility or in early development, but this does not directly represent a security weakness.
Dashboard Navigator Security Vulnerabilities
Dashboard Navigator Code Analysis
SQL Query Safety
Output Escaping
Dashboard Navigator Attack Surface
WordPress Hooks 4
Maintenance & Trust
Dashboard Navigator Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
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Dashboard Navigator Developer Profile
6 plugins · 60K total installs
How We Detect Dashboard Navigator
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
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