Like Thumbnail Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/facebook-like-thumbnailPlugin for specifying context specific images to be used as thumbnail for links liked/shared on Facebook.
Is Like Thumbnail Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 85/100Like Thumbnail has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The facebook-like-thumbnail v0.4 plugin exhibits a generally good security posture based on the static analysis provided. It has no identified CVEs, a clean vulnerability history, and its code signals indicate a lack of common risky practices such as dangerous functions, raw SQL queries, file operations, or external HTTP requests. Furthermore, the absence of AJAX handlers, REST API routes, shortcodes, or cron events suggests a very limited attack surface.
Key Concerns
- All output is unescaped
- No capability checks implemented
- No nonce checks implemented
Like Thumbnail Security Vulnerabilities
Like Thumbnail Code Analysis
Output Escaping
Like Thumbnail Attack Surface
WordPress Hooks 7
Maintenance & Trust
Like Thumbnail Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
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Like Thumbnail Developer Profile
4 plugins · 1K total installs
How We Detect Like Thumbnail
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
HTML / DOM Fingerprints
<!-- Facebook Like Thumbnail (v0.4) --><!-- using default fallback --><!-- Facebook Like Thumbnail (By Ashfame - https://github.com/ashfame/facebook-like-thumbnail) --><!-- Facebook Like Thumbnail (v0.4) -->+14 more