World Clock Security & Risk Analysis

wordpress.org/plugins/flash-world-clock

World clock showing the local time at six major cities round the world. The plugin provides a choice of analog and digital clocks, colors and sizes.

200 active installs v1.1 PHP + WP 2.8+ Updated Aug 23, 2022
world-capital-timezonesworld-clockworld-flash-clockworld-time
85
A · Safe
CVEs total0
Unpatched0
Last CVENever
Safety Verdict

Is World Clock Safe to Use in 2026?

Generally Safe

Score 85/100

World Clock has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.

No known CVEs Updated 3yr ago
Risk Assessment

The 'flash-world-clock' plugin v1.1 exhibits a concerning security posture despite its seemingly small attack surface and lack of recorded vulnerabilities. The static analysis reveals a complete absence of input validation and output escaping mechanisms. With 21 total outputs identified and 0% properly escaped, this presents a significant risk for cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. The lack of capability checks and nonce checks on any potential entry points (even though none were explicitly identified in this analysis) means that if any new entry points were added or discovered, they would likely be unprotected. The vulnerability history being clean is a positive sign, but it does not mitigate the inherent risks identified in the code's defensive programming practices. The absence of dangerous functions, prepared statements for SQL, file operations, and external HTTP requests are positive, but they are overshadowed by the critical lack of output sanitization and potential for unauthenticated actions if an attack surface were to emerge.

Key Concerns

  • No output escaping detected
  • No capability checks found
  • No nonce checks found
Vulnerabilities
None known

World Clock Security Vulnerabilities

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

World Clock Code Analysis

Dangerous Functions
0
Raw SQL Queries
0
0 prepared
Unescaped Output
21
0 escaped
Nonce Checks
0
Capability Checks
0
File Operations
0
External Requests
0
Bundled Libraries
0

Output Escaping

0% escaped21 total outputs
Attack Surface

World Clock Attack Surface

Entry Points0
Unprotected0
WordPress Hooks 1
actionplugins_loadedworld-clock.php:295
Maintenance & Trust

World Clock Maintenance & Trust

Maintenance Signals

WordPress version tested6.0.11
Last updatedAug 23, 2022
PHP min version
Downloads30K

Community Trust

Rating34/100
Number of ratings3
Active installs200
Developer Profile

World Clock Developer Profile

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8 plugins · 3K total installs

86
trust score
Avg Security Score
88/100
Avg Patch Time
30 days
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Detection Fingerprints

How We Detect World Clock

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

Asset Fingerprints

Asset Paths
/wp-content/plugins/flash-world-clock/world-clock.css/wp-content/plugins/flash-world-clock/world-clock.js
Script Paths
/wp-content/plugins/flash-world-clock/world-clock.js
Version Parameters
flash-world-clock/world-clock.css?ver=flash-world-clock/world-clock.js?ver=

HTML / DOM Fingerprints

Data Attributes
name="world-clock-title"name="world-clock-titleflag"name="world-clock-transparentflag"name="world-clock-ampmflag"name="world-clock-size"name="world-clock-type"+16 more
Shortcode Output
<div id="worldclock">
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about World Clock