
Hotspot Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/hotspotCreate an awesome pins for your image. It can be use for any highlighted points and dots on your image.
Is Hotspot Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 85/100Hotspot has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The "hotspot" plugin v1.1 exhibits a mixed security posture. On the positive side, it demonstrates good practices by utilizing prepared statements for all SQL queries and having a high percentage of properly escaped outputs. The absence of known CVEs and a clean vulnerability history further suggests a generally stable codebase. However, significant concerns arise from the presence of two unprotected AJAX handlers, which represent direct entry points for potential malicious interaction without proper authentication checks. Furthermore, the use of the `unserialize` function, while not directly linked to a taint flow in this analysis, is inherently risky as it can lead to object injection vulnerabilities if the data being unserialized is controlled by an attacker.
Key Concerns
- Unprotected AJAX handlers
- Use of unserialize function
Hotspot Security Vulnerabilities
Hotspot Code Analysis
Dangerous Functions Found
Output Escaping
Hotspot Attack Surface
AJAX Handlers 3
Shortcodes 1
WordPress Hooks 20
Maintenance & Trust
Hotspot Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
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Hotspot Developer Profile
4 plugins · 210 total installs
How We Detect Hotspot
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
/wp-content/plugins/hotspot/css/hotspot.css/wp-content/plugins/hotspot/js/hotspot.js/wp-content/plugins/hotspot/js/hotspot.jshotspot/style.css?ver=hotspot/script.js?ver=HTML / DOM Fingerprints
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