
Instant Breadcrumbs Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/instant-breadcrumbsInstant Breadcrumbs adds a breadcrumb trail to your WordPress blog's primary navigation menu. No theme editing required!
Is Instant Breadcrumbs Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 85/100Instant Breadcrumbs has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The plugin "instant-breadcrumbs" v1.4.5 exhibits a strong security posture based on the provided static analysis. The absence of AJAX handlers, REST API routes, shortcodes, and cron events significantly limits the potential attack surface. Furthermore, the code demonstrates good practices by exclusively using prepared statements for SQL queries and avoiding dangerous functions, file operations, and external HTTP requests. The taint analysis also reveals no identified security flows, indicating a clean codebase in this regard. The plugin's vulnerability history is also empty, with no recorded CVEs, which is a positive indicator of its security development and maintenance.
Key Concerns
- No nonce checks implemented
- No capability checks implemented
- Output escaping is not consistently applied (29% unescaped)
Instant Breadcrumbs Security Vulnerabilities
Instant Breadcrumbs Code Analysis
Output Escaping
Instant Breadcrumbs Attack Surface
WordPress Hooks 8
Maintenance & Trust
Instant Breadcrumbs Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
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Instant Breadcrumbs Developer Profile
1 plugin · 300 total installs
How We Detect Instant Breadcrumbs
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
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