
Primary Cat Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/primary-catSet a primary category for your posts... and then do stuff with it. [primary-cat]
Is Primary Cat Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 100/100Primary Cat has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The plugin "primary-cat" v0.2 exhibits a strong security posture based on the provided static analysis. It has a minimal attack surface with only two shortcodes as entry points, and importantly, none of these appear to be unprotected. The code demonstrates good practices by using prepared statements for all SQL queries, implementing nonce checks, and performing capability checks. Furthermore, a high percentage of output is properly escaped, and there are no indications of dangerous functions, file operations, or external HTTP requests.
Taint analysis shows no flows with unsanitized paths, which is a significant positive indicator. The vulnerability history is completely clear, with no recorded CVEs of any severity. This lack of historical vulnerabilities, combined with the clean static analysis results, suggests the plugin has been developed with security in mind and has likely undergone thorough vetting or testing. The plugin's strengths lie in its robust input validation, secure coding practices for database interactions and output handling, and its lack of a historical security track record.
Primary Cat Security Vulnerabilities
Primary Cat Code Analysis
Output Escaping
Primary Cat Attack Surface
Shortcodes 2
WordPress Hooks 5
Maintenance & Trust
Primary Cat Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
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Primary Cat Developer Profile
30 plugins · 52K total installs
How We Detect Primary Cat
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
/wp-content/plugins/primary-cat/primary-cat.phpHTML / DOM Fingerprints
set-as-primaryprimary-catname="pcat_primary"placeholder="Primary Category"<span class="primary-cat"><ul id="breadcrumbs" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/BreadcrumbList">