
Easy Excerpt Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/easy-excerptManage your posts excerpt with Easy Excerpt. Change excerpt length, ending and "read more"-link from WordPress admin.
Is Easy Excerpt Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 85/100Easy Excerpt 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 "easy-excerpt" plugin v0.3.0 exhibits a strong security posture. The absence of any identified AJAX handlers, REST API routes, shortcodes, or cron events significantly limits its attack surface. Furthermore, the code analysis reveals no dangerous functions, all SQL queries utilize prepared statements, and all identified outputs are properly escaped, indicating adherence to secure coding practices.
The taint analysis also shows no identified flows, either sanitized or unsanitized, suggesting a lack of potential for injection vulnerabilities through input data. The plugin's vulnerability history is clean, with zero known CVEs, indicating a historically secure development and maintenance record. This combination of a minimal attack surface, robust code hygiene, and a clean vulnerability history suggests a low-risk plugin.
While the plugin demonstrates excellent security hygiene in the analyzed areas, the complete absence of nonce and capability checks, along with zero AJAX and REST API endpoints, could be interpreted in two ways. It might mean the plugin is very simple and doesn't require these protections, or it could indicate a lack of critical functionalities that would necessitate them. However, given the overall positive findings, the current assessment points towards a secure plugin. The strengths lie in its minimal attack surface and strict adherence to secure coding practices for the components that do exist.
Key Concerns
- No nonce checks found
- No capability checks found
Easy Excerpt Security Vulnerabilities
Easy Excerpt Code Analysis
Output Escaping
Easy Excerpt Attack Surface
WordPress Hooks 7
Maintenance & Trust
Easy Excerpt Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
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Easy Excerpt Developer Profile
2 plugins · 120 total installs
How We Detect Easy Excerpt
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
/wp-content/plugins/easy-excerpt/easy-excerpt.css