
Image Placeholders Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/dominant-color-imagesDisplays placeholders based on an image's dominant color while the image is loading.
Is Image Placeholders Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 100/100Image Placeholders has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
Based on the provided static analysis and vulnerability history, the "dominant-color-images" plugin v1.2.1 exhibits an exceptionally strong security posture. The static analysis reveals a complete absence of any identifiable attack surface, including AJAX handlers, REST API routes, shortcodes, and cron events. Furthermore, the code demonstrates excellent security practices by utilizing prepared statements for all SQL queries, ensuring all outputs are properly escaped, and avoiding dangerous functions, file operations, and external HTTP requests. The absence of taint analysis findings further reinforces this positive assessment, indicating no identified flows with unsanitized data. The plugin's vulnerability history is also pristine, with no recorded CVEs of any severity. This combination of a minimal attack surface, robust coding practices, and a clean history suggests a very low risk of exploitation. The primary area of concern, if any can be identified from this limited data, is the complete lack of nonce and capability checks. While the absence of an attack surface mitigates the immediate risk, this could become a vulnerability if new entry points are introduced in future updates without proper security measures.
Key Concerns
- Missing nonce checks
- Missing capability checks
Image Placeholders Security Vulnerabilities
Image Placeholders Code Analysis
Output Escaping
Image Placeholders Attack Surface
WordPress Hooks 9
Maintenance & Trust
Image Placeholders Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
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Image Placeholders Developer Profile
10 plugins · 700K total installs
How We Detect Image Placeholders
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
/wp-content/plugins/dominant-color-images/dominant-color-images.phpdominant-color-images HTML / DOM Fingerprints
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