
Rel Nofollow Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/rel-nofollowAdds rel="nofollow" to posts external links unless specified otherwise.
Is Rel Nofollow Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 100/100Rel Nofollow has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The 'rel-nofollow' plugin version 1.4 exhibits a generally strong security posture due to the absence of any identified vulnerabilities in its history and a lack of critical issues in the static analysis. The complete absence of SQL queries without prepared statements and no external HTTP requests are positive indicators. However, a significant concern lies in the output escaping. With 2 total outputs and 0% properly escaped, there's a high risk of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities if any user-supplied or dynamically generated content is being displayed directly without sanitization. While the plugin has no recorded CVEs, this lack of history doesn't negate the presence of potential vulnerabilities indicated by the unescaped output.
Key Concerns
- Output not properly escaped
Rel Nofollow Security Vulnerabilities
Rel Nofollow Code Analysis
Output Escaping
Rel Nofollow Attack Surface
WordPress Hooks 3
Maintenance & Trust
Rel Nofollow Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
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Rel Nofollow Developer Profile
6 plugins · 3K total installs
How We Detect Rel Nofollow
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
rel-nofollow/style.css?ver=rel-nofollow.js?ver=HTML / DOM Fingerprints
id="rnf_exclude_post"name="rnf_exclude_post"id="rel_nofollow"name="rnf_metabox_nonce"id="rnf_metabox_nonce"