
Media Deduper Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/media-deduperSave disk space and bring some order to the chaos of your media library by removing and preventing duplicate files.
Is Media Deduper Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 100/100Media Deduper has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The media-deduper plugin version 1.5.9 exhibits a generally good security posture with strong adherence to best practices in most areas. The plugin demonstrates a high percentage of properly escaped outputs and makes extensive use of prepared statements for its SQL queries, significantly mitigating common web vulnerabilities. Its lack of known CVEs and a clean vulnerability history are positive indicators of its security maturity. The presence of nonce checks and capability checks on a majority of its entry points further strengthens its defense against common attacks.
Key Concerns
- Unprotected AJAX handlers
- Flow with unsanitized paths
Media Deduper Security Vulnerabilities
Media Deduper Code Analysis
SQL Query Safety
Output Escaping
Data Flow Analysis
Media Deduper Attack Surface
AJAX Handlers 4
WordPress Hooks 25
Maintenance & Trust
Media Deduper Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
Media Deduper Alternatives
Default Media Uploader View
default-media-uploader-view
Sets "Uploaded to this post" instead of "All media items" as the default view in the media uploader.
Add From Server
add-from-server
Add From Server is designed to help ease the pain of bad web hosts, allowing you to upload files via FTP or SSH and later import them into WordPress.
WEN Featured Image
wen-featured-image
Add featured image column in listings. Add/change/remove featured image directly from the listing page
WP Attachment Export
wp-attachment-export
Exports only posts of type 'attachment', i.e. your media library
wp_upload_rename
wp-upload-rename
Change upload filename to random characters / random numbers / date / other by yourself.
Media Deduper Developer Profile
9 plugins · 12K total installs
How We Detect Media Deduper
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
/wp-content/plugins/media-deduper/inc//wp-content/plugins/media-deduper/admin//wp-content/plugins/media-deduper/media-deduper.jsmedia-deduper.js?ver=HTML / DOM Fingerprints
mdd-debug-infodata-mdd-actionmedia_deduper_admin_object/wp-json/media-deduper/v1/index_status/wp-json/media-deduper/v1/index_stop/wp-json/media-deduper/v1/async_test