
Developer Options Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/developer-options-pluginPlugin for WordPress Developers to view WordPress options.
Is Developer Options Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 85/100Developer Options has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The "developer-options-plugin" v1.1 exhibits a mixed security posture. On one hand, it demonstrates good practices by avoiding external HTTP requests, file operations, and SQL queries that aren't prepared. The complete absence of known CVEs and a clean vulnerability history is also a positive indicator, suggesting the developers may be security-conscious or that the plugin has not been extensively targeted. However, significant concerns arise from the static analysis. The presence of the `unserialize` function, especially without explicit input sanitization or validation indicated, poses a substantial risk. Furthermore, a complete lack of output escaping on all identified outputs is a critical flaw, leaving the plugin highly susceptible to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. The absence of nonce and capability checks on any potential entry points, although currently zero, is a weakness that could become a problem if new features are added without proper security considerations.
Key Concerns
- Dangerous function 'unserialize' used
- All outputs are unescaped
- No nonce checks found
- No capability checks found
Developer Options Security Vulnerabilities
Developer Options Code Analysis
Dangerous Functions Found
Output Escaping
Developer Options Attack Surface
WordPress Hooks 2
Maintenance & Trust
Developer Options Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
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Developer Options Developer Profile
19 plugins · 2K total installs
How We Detect Developer Options
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
/wp-content/plugins/developer-options-plugin/js/developer-options.jshttp://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.2/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.cssdeveloper-options-plugin/js/developer-options.js?ver=HTML / DOM Fingerprints
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