Email Validation Filter for Contact Form 7 Security & Risk Analysis

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Added mail validation function to Contact Form 7. Protected by rejection filter, RFC filter, and DNS filter.

200 active installs v1.0.3 PHP + WP 5.0+ Updated Jan 16, 2025
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A · Safe
CVEs total0
Unpatched0
Last CVENever
Safety Verdict

Is Email Validation Filter for Contact Form 7 Safe to Use in 2026?

Generally Safe

Score 92/100

Email Validation Filter for Contact Form 7 has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.

No known CVEs Updated 1yr ago
Risk Assessment

The plugin "email-validation-filter-for-contact-form-7" v1.0.3 exhibits a strong security posture based on the provided static analysis. The absence of any identified dangerous functions, raw SQL queries, file operations, or external HTTP requests is a significant positive indicator. Furthermore, the high percentage of properly escaped output suggests a good practice of preventing cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.

The analysis also reveals no identified vulnerabilities in its history, nor any exploitable attack surface points such as unprotected AJAX handlers, REST API routes, shortcodes, or cron events. The taint analysis showing zero flows with unsanitized paths is excellent, indicating that user-supplied data is likely being handled safely. The complete lack of capability checks and nonce checks, while typically a concern, is less alarming here due to the seemingly non-existent attack surface.

Overall, the plugin appears to be well-developed from a security perspective, with no immediate or evident risks based on the provided data. Its strengths lie in its clean code and lack of historical vulnerabilities. The only potential area for scrutiny, given the lack of other issues, would be the complete absence of capability and nonce checks, which in a more complex plugin or with a larger attack surface, would be a significant concern. However, in this case, the risk is mitigated by the minimal attack surface.

Vulnerabilities
None known

Email Validation Filter for Contact Form 7 Security Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities — this is a good sign.
Code Analysis
Analyzed Mar 16, 2026

Email Validation Filter for Contact Form 7 Code Analysis

Dangerous Functions
0
Raw SQL Queries
0
0 prepared
Unescaped Output
6
115 escaped
Nonce Checks
0
Capability Checks
0
File Operations
0
External Requests
0
Bundled Libraries
0

Output Escaping

95% escaped121 total outputs
Attack Surface

Email Validation Filter for Contact Form 7 Attack Surface

Entry Points0
Unprotected0
WordPress Hooks 9
actioninitwp-contact-form-7_email-validation-filter.php:13
actionadmin_noticeswp-contact-form-7_email-validation-filter.php:52
actionplugins_loadedwp-contact-form-7_email-validation-filter.php:53
actionwpcf7_save_contact_formwp-contact-form-7_email-validation-filter.php:54
actionwpcf7_editor_panelswp-contact-form-7_email-validation-filter.php:55
filterwpcf7_pre_construct_contact_form_propertieswp-contact-form-7_email-validation-filter.php:60
filterwpcf7_contact_form_propertieswp-contact-form-7_email-validation-filter.php:62
filterwpcf7_validate_emailwp-contact-form-7_email-validation-filter.php:64
filterwpcf7_validate_email*wp-contact-form-7_email-validation-filter.php:65
Maintenance & Trust

Email Validation Filter for Contact Form 7 Maintenance & Trust

Maintenance Signals

WordPress version tested6.7.5
Last updatedJan 16, 2025
PHP min version
Downloads3K

Community Trust

Rating0/100
Number of ratings0
Active installs200
Developer Profile

Email Validation Filter for Contact Form 7 Developer Profile

asamaruk

1 plugin · 200 total installs

88
trust score
Avg Security Score
92/100
Avg Patch Time
30 days
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Detection Fingerprints

How We Detect Email Validation Filter for Contact Form 7

Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.

Asset Fingerprints

HTML / DOM Fingerprints

CSS Classes
wpcf7-email-validation-filter-panel
Data Attributes
name="wpcf7-email-validation-filter[reject][active]"id="wpcf7-email-validation-filter-reject-active"name="wpcf7-email-validation-filter[reject][lists]"id="wpcf7-email-validation-filter-lists"name="wpcf7-email-validation-filter[reject][error]"id="wpcf7-email-validation-filter-error"+8 more
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about Email Validation Filter for Contact Form 7