
Pagebar2 Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/pagebarPagebar adds a nice page bar to your blog posts, multipaged posts and paged comments.
Is Pagebar2 Safe to Use in 2026?
Mostly Safe
Score 84/100Pagebar2 is generally safe to use though it hasn't been updated recently. 1 past CVE were resolved. Keep it updated.
The 'pagebar' plugin version 2.70 exhibits a generally good security posture based on the static analysis. The absence of any identified dangerous functions, raw SQL queries, or file operations is commendable. Furthermore, the code demonstrates strong output escaping practices (98% properly escaped) and includes necessary nonce and capability checks, indicating attention to preventing common vulnerabilities. The lack of any identified taint flows with unsanitized paths, especially critical or high severity ones, is a positive sign.
Key Concerns
- One high severity CVE in history
- One historical CVE (CSRF)
Pagebar2 Security Vulnerabilities
CVEs by Year
Severity Breakdown
1 total CVE
pagebar <= 2.65 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update and Cross-Site Scripting
Pagebar2 Code Analysis
SQL Query Safety
Output Escaping
Data Flow Analysis
Pagebar2 Attack Surface
WordPress Hooks 14
Maintenance & Trust
Pagebar2 Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
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Pagebar2 Developer Profile
8 plugins · 2K total installs
How We Detect Pagebar2
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
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