
Improve SEO Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/improveseoCreates a large number of pages/posts and customize them to rank in Google.
Is Improve SEO Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 100/100Improve SEO has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The "improveseo" plugin v2.0.11 exhibits a concerning security posture primarily due to a large attack surface with a significant number of unprotected entry points. While the static analysis shows no dangerous functions and a majority of SQL queries using prepared statements, the high number of AJAX handlers (51 out of 54) lacking authentication checks is a major red flag. Furthermore, a substantial portion of analyzed taint flows (40 out of 47) have unsanitized paths, with 10 identified as high severity. This indicates a potential for injection vulnerabilities if these flows are reachable by unauthenticated users or through insufficient input validation. The absence of any recorded vulnerability history might suggest a lack of past exploitation or discovery, but it does not negate the risks identified in the current code analysis, particularly the high number of unsanitized paths and unprotected AJAX endpoints. The plugin also shows a low percentage of properly escaped output, which could lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. While strengths like prepared SQL statements exist, the identified weaknesses in access control and input sanitization present a clear and present danger.
Key Concerns
- Unprotected AJAX handlers
- High severity unsanitized taint flows
- Low output escaping
- Unsanitized paths in taint flows
- Low capability checks
- Low nonce checks
Improve SEO Security Vulnerabilities
Improve SEO Release Timeline
Improve SEO Code Analysis
Bundled Libraries
SQL Query Safety
Output Escaping
Data Flow Analysis
Improve SEO Attack Surface
AJAX Handlers 54
Shortcodes 8
WordPress Hooks 47
Scheduled Events 1
Maintenance & Trust
Improve SEO Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
Improve SEO Alternatives
People Also Ask
people-also-ask
Automatically generate content-rich articles in your WordPress site by scraping and organizing questions from Google's "People Also Ask" section.
Croton Autoblogger AI
croton-autoblogger-ai
Automatically generates WordPress posts with SEO optimizations using AI-powered backend. Integrates with Yoast SEO, RankMath, and All in One SEO.
OrphanPages – Internal Link Audit, Orphaned Pages, Broken Links & SEO Content Structure Analyzer
orphanpages
A complete internal linking and link health audit tool for WordPress. Identify orphaned pages, analyze incoming and outgoing links, detect broken link …
dig Description
dig-description
Just the Meta Description. / 投稿ページやアーカイブページに、ただディスクリプションを設定できるだけのプラグインです。
dig Title
dig-title
Just the Meta Title. / 投稿ページやアーカイブページに、ただメタタイトルを設定できるだけのプラグインです。
Improve SEO Developer Profile
1 plugin · 10 total installs
How We Detect Improve SEO
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
/wp-content/plugins/improveseo/assets/js/custom-plugin-script.js/wp-content/plugins/improveseo/assets/js/custom-plugin-script.jsimproveseo/style.css?ver=improveseo/script.js?ver=improveseo/custom-plugin-script.js?ver=HTML / DOM Fingerprints
styling_post_page_action_buttonsstyling_post_page_action_buttons2styling_post_page_shortcode_action_buttonssw-hide-btnsw-editor-selectordata-targetdata-toggledata-actiondata-namestandred_varai_modal_type[improveseo_testimonial id=[improveseo_button id=[improveseo_map id=[improveseo_video id=