
Single Taxonomy Selector Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/single-taxonomy-selectorA powerful plugin that simplifies taxonomy term selection by enabling users to select a single parent term and its child terms with flexible selection …
Is Single Taxonomy Selector Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 92/100Single Taxonomy Selector has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The "single-taxonomy-selector" plugin, version 1.1.1, presents a mixed security picture. On the positive side, the static analysis reveals no identified dangerous functions, no direct SQL queries (all use prepared statements), no file operations, and no external HTTP requests. The absence of any known vulnerabilities in its history, including critical or high severity ones, further suggests a generally secure development approach. However, a significant concern arises from the complete lack of output escaping. With 8 outputs analyzed, none are properly escaped, indicating a potential for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities if user-supplied data is ever rendered directly in the frontend without sanitization. Additionally, the absence of nonce checks and capability checks across all entry points, though currently showing zero entry points in the static analysis, means that if any were to be introduced in the future, they would likely be unprotected, posing a risk.
Key Concerns
- All outputs are unescaped
- No nonce checks found
- No capability checks found
Single Taxonomy Selector Security Vulnerabilities
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Output Escaping
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Maintenance & Trust
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Single Taxonomy Selector Alternatives
Radio Buttons for Taxonomies
radio-buttons-for-taxonomies
Replace the default taxonomy boxes with a custom metabox that uses radio buttons... effectively limiting each post to a single term in that taxonomy.
Admin Taxonomy Filter
admin-taxonomy-filter
Filter posts or custom post types in the admin area by custom taxonomies.
Post Category Filter (WP Admin)
admin-category-filter
Quickly search and filter categories and taxonomies inside the WordPress admin.
Require Post Category
require-post-category
Require users to choose a post category before updating or publishing a post.
Taxonomy Tags to Checkboxes
runthings-taxonomy-tags-to-checkboxes
Convert taxonomy tags to checkboxes in the WordPress admin area.
Single Taxonomy Selector Developer Profile
2 plugins · 10 total installs
How We Detect Single Taxonomy Selector
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
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