GA-PVcounter Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/ga-pvcounterGoogle Analytics PageView counter and Popular posts, Recent posts widget
Is GA-PVcounter Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 85/100GA-PVcounter has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The "ga-pvcounter" v0.4.0 plugin presents a mixed security posture. On the positive side, it demonstrates good practices by exclusively using prepared statements for its SQL queries and has no known vulnerabilities or CVEs in its history, suggesting a generally stable and well-maintained codebase. The plugin also has a relatively small attack surface with only one shortcode as an entry point and no AJAX handlers or REST API routes exposed without permission checks.
Key Concerns
- Dangerous functions found (unserialize)
- Insufficient output escaping (19% proper)
- No nonce checks found
- Limited capability checks (1)
GA-PVcounter Security Vulnerabilities
GA-PVcounter Code Analysis
Dangerous Functions Found
Output Escaping
GA-PVcounter Attack Surface
Shortcodes 1
WordPress Hooks 4
Maintenance & Trust
GA-PVcounter Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
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GA-PVcounter Developer Profile
12 plugins · 9K total installs
How We Detect GA-PVcounter
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
/wp-content/plugins/ga-pvcounter/ga-pvcounter-style.css/wp-content/plugins/ga-pvcounter/google-api-php-client/src/Google_Client.php/wp-content/plugins/ga-pvcounter/google-api-php-client/src/contrib/Google_AnalyticsService.php/wp-content/plugins/ga-pvcounter/js/ga-pvcounter.jsga-pvcounter/ga-pvcounter-style.css?ver=ga-pvcounter/js/ga-pvcounter.js?ver=HTML / DOM Fingerprints
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