
Post Paging Security & Risk Analysis
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Is Post Paging Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 85/100Post Paging has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The 'post-paging' plugin v1.0 exhibits a concerning security posture primarily due to a complete lack of output escaping. While the static analysis shows no exploitable entry points like AJAX handlers, REST API routes, or shortcodes, and no direct SQL injection risks due to prepared statements, the 0% proper output escaping for all 25 identified outputs is a significant vulnerability. This means that any dynamic content rendered by the plugin is susceptible to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. The absence of any recorded vulnerability history is a positive indicator, suggesting a history of secure development or at least no publicly disclosed issues. However, this does not mitigate the present risk identified in the code analysis. The plugin's strengths lie in its limited attack surface and use of prepared statements for any potential database interactions. Its primary weakness is the unescaped output, which opens it up to XSS vulnerabilities.
Key Concerns
- All identified outputs are unescaped
Post Paging Security Vulnerabilities
Post Paging Release Timeline
Post Paging Code Analysis
Output Escaping
Post Paging Attack Surface
WordPress Hooks 4
Maintenance & Trust
Post Paging Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
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Post Paging Developer Profile
10 plugins · 220 total installs
How We Detect Post Paging
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
HTML / DOM Fingerprints
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