
Nice Quotes Rotator Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/nice-quotes-rotatorAllows display of random quotes via shortcode, a sidebar widget, and/or on the admin page. Quotes can be user-entered, post excerpts or links.
Is Nice Quotes Rotator Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 85/100Nice Quotes Rotator has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The 'nice-quotes-rotator' v1.0 plugin exhibits a mixed security posture. On the positive side, the absence of known CVEs and a clean vulnerability history suggest a relatively stable plugin. The code analysis also shows no direct SQL injection risks due to the use of prepared statements and no file operations or external HTTP requests, which are common attack vectors. However, significant concerns arise from the static code analysis. The use of `create_function` is a dangerous practice that can lead to code injection vulnerabilities. Furthermore, the plugin demonstrates a very low rate of output escaping (4%), indicating a high risk of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities where user-supplied data might be rendered without proper sanitization. The lack of nonce checks and capability checks, while not directly tied to an exposed attack surface in this analysis, means that if any functionality were to be exposed through future updates or interactions, it would be inherently less secure.
Key Concerns
- Use of dangerous function create_function
- Low output escaping rate (4%)
- Missing nonce checks
- Missing capability checks
Nice Quotes Rotator Security Vulnerabilities
Nice Quotes Rotator Code Analysis
Dangerous Functions Found
Output Escaping
Nice Quotes Rotator Attack Surface
Shortcodes 2
WordPress Hooks 8
Maintenance & Trust
Nice Quotes Rotator Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
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Requires at least: 3.6.0 Tested up to: 4.9.4 Stable tag: 4.9.4 License: GPLv3 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.
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4 plugins · 370 total installs
How We Detect Nice Quotes Rotator
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Asset Fingerprints
HTML / DOM Fingerprints
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