
Historian Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/retropostsHistorian Block aka "this week in history" for your blog.
Is Historian Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 85/100Historian has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The "retroposts" v2.0 plugin exhibits a generally strong security posture based on the provided static analysis. The absence of any identified AJAX handlers, REST API routes, shortcodes, or cron events significantly limits the plugin's attack surface. Furthermore, the code signals indicate good practices in handling SQL queries with prepared statements and a complete lack of dangerous functions, file operations, or external HTTP requests. However, a notable concern is the very low percentage of properly escaped output (17%), which presents a potential risk for cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities if user-supplied data is displayed without adequate sanitization. The vulnerability history being entirely clear is a positive indicator, suggesting the plugin has a good track record, or has not been extensively scrutinized for past flaws.
Key Concerns
- Low output escaping percentage
Historian Security Vulnerabilities
Historian Code Analysis
Output Escaping
Historian Attack Surface
WordPress Hooks 3
Maintenance & Trust
Historian Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
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Historian Developer Profile
1 plugin · 10 total installs
How We Detect Historian
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
/wp-content/plugins/retroposts/build/index.asset.php/wp-content/plugins/retroposts/build/index.jsretroposts/build/index.js?ver=retroposts/build/index.asset.phpHTML / DOM Fingerprints
<div class="historian-widget"><h2 class="historian-widget-title">