Protected Post Personalizer Security & Risk Analysis

wordpress.org/plugins/protected-post-personalizer

This plugin is a simple one, but good at what it does. It changes three elements of protected posts to make them more friendly to visitors.

30 active installs v0.6 PHP + WP 2.3+ Updated Jan 24, 2009
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85
A · Safe
CVEs total0
Unpatched0
Last CVENever
Safety Verdict

Is Protected Post Personalizer Safe to Use in 2026?

Generally Safe

Score 85/100

Protected Post Personalizer has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.

No known CVEs Updated 17yr ago
Risk Assessment

The "protected-post-personalizer" plugin, at version 0.6, exhibits a concerning security posture despite a lack of recorded vulnerabilities. The static analysis reveals a complete absence of critical security controls such as nonce checks and capability checks across all identified entry points, which are none. Furthermore, the plugin fails to properly escape any of its 5 identified output operations. This indicates a significant risk of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, where malicious scripts could be injected into the website through user-supplied data that is not adequately sanitized before being displayed. While the plugin uses prepared statements for its SQL queries and has no reported CVEs, the lack of fundamental security implementations in its output handling and authorization mechanisms presents a substantial weakness. The absence of vulnerability history might suggest it hasn't been extensively tested or exploited, but this should not be mistaken for a secure state. The identified issues with unescaped output and the complete omission of authorization checks warrant careful consideration and mitigation.

Key Concerns

  • Unescaped output
  • Missing capability checks
  • Missing nonce checks
Vulnerabilities
None known

Protected Post Personalizer Security Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities — this is a good sign.
Code Analysis
Analyzed Mar 16, 2026

Protected Post Personalizer Code Analysis

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

Output Escaping

0% escaped5 total outputs
Attack Surface

Protected Post Personalizer Attack Surface

Entry Points0
Unprotected0
WordPress Hooks 4
filterthe_titleprotected-post-personalizer.php:69
filterthe_contentprotected-post-personalizer.php:108
filterget_the_excerptprotected-post-personalizer.php:111
actionadmin_menuprotected-post-personalizer.php:236
Maintenance & Trust

Protected Post Personalizer Maintenance & Trust

Maintenance Signals

WordPress version tested2.7
Last updatedJan 24, 2009
PHP min version
Downloads6K

Community Trust

Rating100/100
Number of ratings2
Active installs30
Developer Profile

Protected Post Personalizer Developer Profile

Fabio Rinaldi

13 plugins · 11K total installs

69
trust score
Avg Security Score
86/100
Avg Patch Time
1101 days
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Detection Fingerprints

How We Detect Protected Post Personalizer

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

Asset Fingerprints

HTML / DOM Fingerprints

HTML Comments
Copyright 2008 Orin Zebest Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
Data Attributes
name="password-protected-prefix"name="private-prefix"name="custom-preview-text"name="passworded-preview-type"name="password-form-prefix"name="password-form-submit"+7 more
Shortcode Output
<form action="/wp-pass.php" method="post"> <p ><label for="">
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about Protected Post Personalizer