
License Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/licenseThe license plugin gives authors the ability to mark their content with a Creative Commons license and to display the license along with the content.
Is License Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 100/100License has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The "license" v0.5 plugin exhibits a strong security posture based on the provided static analysis. The absence of any identified AJAX handlers, REST API routes, shortcodes, or cron events significantly limits the plugin's attack surface. Furthermore, the analysis indicates a conscientious approach to coding, with no dangerous functions, no direct SQL queries susceptible to injection (all use prepared statements), and no file operations or external HTTP requests. The presence of nonce and capability checks, although limited in number, also suggests an awareness of WordPress security best practices. The vulnerability history is completely clean, with zero recorded CVEs, which is a very positive indicator of past security diligence. The only area of concern, albeit minor, is the 43% rate of properly escaped output. While not ideal, it's not a critical flaw given the small number of total outputs and the lack of exploitable taint flows.
Key Concerns
- Output escaping is not consistently applied
License Security Vulnerabilities
License Code Analysis
Output Escaping
Data Flow Analysis
License Attack Surface
WordPress Hooks 9
Maintenance & Trust
License Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
License Alternatives
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License Developer Profile
13 plugins · 6K total installs
How We Detect License
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
/wp-content/plugins/license/admin.js/wp-content/plugins/license/admin.jsHTML / DOM Fingerprints
misc-pub-sectionmisc-pub-section-lastedit-license<!--
<p>
<a class="save-post-license hide-if-no-js button" href="#license">OK</a>
<a class="cancel-post-license hide-if-no-js" href="#license">Cancel</a>
</p>
-->id="license"id="license-display"class="thickbox edit-license"id="license-nonce"name="license_nonce"id="hidden-license-deed"+6 morevar license_displaynamevar license_nickname