
Forget User Info Security & Risk Analysis
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Is Forget User Info Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 85/100Forget User Info has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The "forget-user-info" v0.2 plugin presents a mixed security profile. On the positive side, it demonstrates excellent practices regarding data handling, with all SQL queries utilizing prepared statements and all output being properly escaped. The absence of file operations and external HTTP requests further reduces the attack surface. Its vulnerability history is also clean, with no recorded CVEs, suggesting a historically stable codebase.
However, the static analysis reveals significant concerns. The presence of the `create_function` function, a deprecated and potentially dangerous construct, is a red flag. Furthermore, the taint analysis indicates that while no critical or high severity vulnerabilities were found, there are two flows with unsanitized paths. This, combined with a complete lack of nonce and capability checks, means that even if no direct vulnerabilities are immediately apparent, the plugin is highly susceptible to various injection attacks or unauthorized access if an attack vector is found that leverages these unsanitized paths. The zero attack surface from direct WordPress entry points (AJAX, REST API, shortcodes, cron) is a strength, but the underlying code signals and taint analysis are cause for caution.
Key Concerns
- Dangerous function create_function used
- Flows with unsanitized paths detected
- No nonce checks present
- No capability checks present
Forget User Info Security Vulnerabilities
Forget User Info Code Analysis
Dangerous Functions Found
Output Escaping
Data Flow Analysis
Forget User Info Attack Surface
WordPress Hooks 2
Maintenance & Trust
Forget User Info Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
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Forget User Info Developer Profile
29 plugins · 176K total installs
How We Detect Forget User Info
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
HTML / DOM Fingerprints
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