Simple Website Redirect Security & Risk Analysis

wordpress.org/plugins/simple-website-redirect

A simple plugin designed to redirect an entire website (except the WordPress backend) to another website.

6K active installs v1.3.2 PHP 7.4+ WP 4.7+ Updated Mar 15, 2025
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CVEs total0
Unpatched0
Last CVENever
Safety Verdict

Is Simple Website Redirect Safe to Use in 2026?

Generally Safe

Score 92/100

Simple Website Redirect has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.

No known CVEs Updated 1yr ago
Risk Assessment

The "simple-website-redirect" v1.3.2 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 its attack surface, and crucially, all entry points are reported as protected. The code signals also indicate good practices, with no dangerous functions, SQL queries utilizing prepared statements exclusively, and a very high percentage of properly escaped output. File operations and external HTTP requests are also absent, further reducing potential vectors.

However, the analysis reveals a potential weakness in the lack of nonce checks. While a capability check is present, the absence of nonces on any potential entry points, if any were to exist (though none were detected in this analysis), could be a concern in a more complex plugin. The taint analysis reporting zero flows with unsanitized paths is a positive sign. The plugin's vulnerability history is clean, with no recorded CVEs, which suggests a history of stable and likely secure development. Overall, this plugin appears to be well-developed from a security perspective, with its main potential area for improvement being the explicit inclusion of nonce checks if any user-interactive features were ever added.

Key Concerns

  • No nonce checks detected
Vulnerabilities
None known

Simple Website Redirect Security Vulnerabilities

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

Simple Website Redirect Code Analysis

Dangerous Functions
0
Raw SQL Queries
0
0 prepared
Unescaped Output
1
18 escaped
Nonce Checks
0
Capability Checks
1
File Operations
0
External Requests
0
Bundled Libraries
0

Output Escaping

95% escaped19 total outputs
Attack Surface

Simple Website Redirect Attack Surface

Entry Points0
Unprotected0
WordPress Hooks 10
actioninitSimpleWebsiteRedirect.php:62
actionadmin_initSimpleWebsiteRedirect.php:63
actionadmin_menuSimpleWebsiteRedirect.php:64
filtersimple_website_redirect_urlSimpleWebsiteRedirect.php:67
filtersimple_website_redirect_should_redirectSimpleWebsiteRedirect.php:68
filtersimple_website_redirect_should_redirectSimpleWebsiteRedirect.php:69
filtersimple_website_redirect_excluded_pathsSimpleWebsiteRedirect.php:70
filtersimple_website_redirect_excluded_query_paramsSimpleWebsiteRedirect.php:71
filterallowed_redirect_hostsSimpleWebsiteRedirect.php:73
actionplugins_loadedSimpleWebsiteRedirect.php:668
Maintenance & Trust

Simple Website Redirect Maintenance & Trust

Maintenance Signals

WordPress version tested6.7.5
Last updatedMar 15, 2025
PHP min version7.4
Downloads160K

Community Trust

Rating92/100
Number of ratings21
Active installs6K
Developer Profile

Simple Website Redirect Developer Profile

Micah Wood

8 plugins · 12K total installs

88
trust score
Avg Security Score
91/100
Avg Patch Time
30 days
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Detection Fingerprints

How We Detect Simple Website Redirect

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

Asset Fingerprints

Version Parameters
simple-website-redirect/SimpleWebsiteRedirect.php?ver=1.3.2

HTML / DOM Fingerprints

REST Endpoints
/wp-json/
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about Simple Website Redirect