
Searchy Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/searchyAn AJAX Search Engine allowing different criterias for sorting and filtering your posts. Use via simple shortcodes and few settings.
Is Searchy Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 85/100Searchy has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The "searchy" v1.0 plugin exhibits a mixed security posture. On the positive side, it demonstrates a lack of critical code signals such as dangerous functions, raw SQL queries, file operations, and external HTTP requests. Furthermore, the absence of any recorded vulnerability history, including CVEs, suggests a potentially stable and well-maintained codebase. However, a significant concern arises from the complete lack of proper output escaping across all identified output points. This indicates a high likelihood of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, as user-supplied data could be rendered directly in the browser without sanitization. The presence of taint flows with unsanitized paths, even without critical severity, further reinforces this concern and suggests potential pathways for malicious input to reach vulnerable output points.
Key Concerns
- 0% properly escaped output
- 1 unsanitized path in taint analysis
- 0 nonce checks present
Searchy Security Vulnerabilities
Searchy Code Analysis
Output Escaping
Data Flow Analysis
Searchy Attack Surface
Shortcodes 2
WordPress Hooks 4
Maintenance & Trust
Searchy Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
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Searchy Developer Profile
1 plugin · 10 total installs
How We Detect Searchy
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
/wp-content/plugins/searchy/searchy.js/wp-content/plugins/searchy/searchy.css/wp-content/plugins/searchy/searchy.jssearchy/style.css?ver=searchy/script.js?ver=HTML / DOM Fingerprints
searchy-load-bubblesearchy-search-resultssearchy-filter-overlayersearchy-res-thumb<!-- sorting filters --><!-- search results --><!-- INIT CONDITIONS META QUERY --><!-- ADD SEARCH BY CATEGORIES CONDITION [checkboxes] - in OR -->+6 moredata-sortbydata-sortby-fielddata-toggle="buttons"data-searchy_sortby_hiddendata-searchy_sortby_field_hidden<div id="searchy-sorting" class="pull-right"><div class="btn-group" data-toggle="buttons"><div class="searchy-load-bubble"><div id="searchy-search-results">