Personal Chat room Security & Risk Analysis

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Personal Chat Room adds a facility to allow your customers to chat with one another. Here They can questions with another users and can get the answer …

10 active installs v1.1 PHP + WP 2.0.2+ Updated Aug 13, 2013
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CVEs total0
Unpatched0
Last CVENever
Safety Verdict

Is Personal Chat room Safe to Use in 2026?

Generally Safe

Score 85/100

Personal Chat room has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.

No known CVEs Updated 12yr ago
Risk Assessment

The "personal-chat-room" plugin v1.1 exhibits a mixed security posture. While it has a small attack surface with only one shortcode as an entry point and no known vulnerabilities in its history, several code signals raise significant concerns. The presence of `unserialize` is a critical danger, especially when coupled with a lack of proper output escaping and no nonce or capability checks on its entry points. The taint analysis revealing a flow with unsanitized paths further amplifies this risk. The plugin's SQL queries are well-prepared, which is a positive practice, and it makes no external HTTP requests. However, the absence of any output escaping whatsoever means that any data processed and then displayed could be vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. The limited vulnerability history might suggest it hasn't been extensively targeted, but the flaws identified in the static analysis are serious enough to warrant immediate attention.

Key Concerns

  • Presence of unserialize function
  • Taint flow with unsanitized path
  • No output escaping
  • Missing nonce checks
  • Missing capability checks
Vulnerabilities
None known

Personal Chat room Security Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities — this is a good sign.
Code Analysis
Analyzed Mar 17, 2026

Personal Chat room Code Analysis

Dangerous Functions
1
Raw SQL Queries
0
4 prepared
Unescaped Output
8
0 escaped
Nonce Checks
0
Capability Checks
0
File Operations
5
External Requests
0
Bundled Libraries
0

Dangerous Functions Found

unserialize$val_data_unser = unserialize($val_data);chat\index.php:18

SQL Query Safety

100% prepared4 total queries

Output Escaping

0% escaped8 total outputs
Data Flows
1 unsanitized

Data Flow Analysis

1 flows1 with unsanitized paths
<index> (chat\index.php:0)
Source (user input) Sink (dangerous op) Sanitizer Transform Unsanitized Sanitized
Attack Surface

Personal Chat room Attack Surface

Entry Points1
Unprotected0

Shortcodes 1

[PERSONAL_CHAT_ROOM] personal-chat-room.php:46
WordPress Hooks 1
actionadmin_menupersonal-chat-room.php:55
Maintenance & Trust

Personal Chat room Maintenance & Trust

Maintenance Signals

WordPress version tested
Last updatedAug 13, 2013
PHP min version
Downloads4K

Community Trust

Rating66/100
Number of ratings3
Active installs10
Developer Profile

Personal Chat room Developer Profile

Rohitashv Singhal

2 plugins · 20 total installs

84
trust score
Avg Security Score
85/100
Avg Patch Time
30 days
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Detection Fingerprints

How We Detect Personal Chat room

Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.

Asset Fingerprints

Asset Paths
/wp-content/plugins/personal-chat-room/chat/index.php

HTML / DOM Fingerprints

CSS Classes
middle_leftsupport_btn
Data Attributes
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Shortcode Output
<div class='middle_left' id='support_btn'><div id='middle_left_text'><form method='post' action='/wp-content/plugins/personal-chat-room/chat/index.php' target='_blank'><input type='hidden' name='value' value='
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about Personal Chat room