Hover Preview Security & Risk Analysis

wordpress.org/plugins/hover-preview

Display a small website preview when hovering over a link. Customize your API key for PagePeeker directly in the plugin settings.

0 active installs v1.1 PHP 7.4+ WP 5.0+ Updated Jan 27, 2025
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CVEs total0
Unpatched0
Last CVENever
Safety Verdict

Is Hover Preview Safe to Use in 2026?

Generally Safe

Score 92/100

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

No known CVEs Updated 1yr ago
Risk Assessment

The 'hover-preview' plugin version 1.1 exhibits a strong security posture based on the provided static analysis and vulnerability history. The absence of any AJAX handlers, REST API routes, shortcodes, or cron events significantly limits the attack surface. Furthermore, the code demonstrates good practices with 100% of SQL queries using prepared statements, all output being properly escaped, and the presence of nonce and capability checks. The taint analysis also reveals no critical or high severity flows, indicating a lack of easily exploitable vulnerabilities in the code's handling of data. The plugin's vulnerability history is clean, with no recorded CVEs, further reinforcing its apparent security. Overall, this plugin appears to be well-developed from a security perspective. However, it's important to note that a complete security assessment would ideally involve a more extensive code review and dynamic analysis to catch potential vulnerabilities not apparent in static analysis alone, such as logic flaws or vulnerabilities in external dependencies if any were present.

Vulnerabilities
None known

Hover Preview Security Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities — this is a good sign.
Version History

Hover Preview Release Timeline

v1.1Current
Code Analysis
Analyzed Mar 17, 2026

Hover Preview Code Analysis

Dangerous Functions
0
Raw SQL Queries
0
0 prepared
Unescaped Output
0
3 escaped
Nonce Checks
1
Capability Checks
1
File Operations
0
External Requests
0
Bundled Libraries
0

Output Escaping

100% escaped3 total outputs
Data Flows · Security
All sanitized

Data Flow Analysis

2 flows
hover_preview_settings_page (hover-preview.php:39)
Source (user input) Sink (dangerous op) Sanitizer Transform Unsanitized Sanitized
Attack Surface

Hover Preview Attack Surface

Entry Points0
Unprotected0
WordPress Hooks 2
actionwp_enqueue_scriptshover-preview.php:24
actionadmin_menuhover-preview.php:36
Maintenance & Trust

Hover Preview Maintenance & Trust

Maintenance Signals

WordPress version tested6.7.5
Last updatedJan 27, 2025
PHP min version7.4
Downloads614

Community Trust

Rating0/100
Number of ratings0
Active installs0
Developer Profile

Hover Preview Developer Profile

Oleksiy Lavrynenko

1 plugin · 0 total installs

88
trust score
Avg Security Score
92/100
Avg Patch Time
30 days
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Detection Fingerprints

How We Detect Hover Preview

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

Asset Fingerprints

Asset Paths
/wp-content/plugins/hover-preview/hover-preview.css
Script Paths
/wp-content/plugins/hover-preview/hover-preview.js
Version Parameters
hover-preview/hover-preview.css?ver=hover-preview/hover-preview.js?ver=1.0

HTML / DOM Fingerprints

JS Globals
hoverPreviewData
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about Hover Preview