
Spice Social Share Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/spice-social-shareEffortlessly add social share buttons to your posts.
Is Spice Social Share Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 92/100Spice Social Share has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The 'spice-social-share' plugin version 1.2.2 exhibits a generally strong security posture based on the provided static analysis. It demonstrates excellent adherence to secure coding practices, with no dangerous functions, all SQL queries using prepared statements, and 100% of output properly escaped. The absence of file operations and external HTTP requests further minimizes potential attack vectors. Crucially, the plugin has no recorded vulnerabilities, including critical or high severities, and no known unpatched CVEs, suggesting a mature and well-maintained codebase regarding security. However, the lack of any reported vulnerability history makes it difficult to infer patterns of past issues and their resolution, which is a minor point of uncertainty. The most significant area for potential concern, albeit theoretical given the other positive findings, is the presence of a shortcode entry point without any explicit mention of authorization or capability checks directly tied to it in the static analysis results. While the plugin might implicitly handle this through WordPress core or other means, direct checks would offer greater assurance.
Key Concerns
- Shortcode entry point without explicit auth checks
Spice Social Share Security Vulnerabilities
Spice Social Share Code Analysis
Output Escaping
Spice Social Share Attack Surface
Shortcodes 1
WordPress Hooks 8
Maintenance & Trust
Spice Social Share Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
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Spice Social Share Developer Profile
34 plugins · 63K total installs
How We Detect Spice Social Share
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
/wp-content/plugins/spice-social-share/assets/css/admin.css/wp-content/plugins/spice-social-share/assets/css/font-awesome/css/all.min.css/wp-content/plugins/spice-social-share/assets/css/custom.css/wp-content/plugins/spice-social-share/assets/js/socialshare.js/wp-content/plugins/spice-social-share/assets/js/socialshare.jsspice-social-share/assets/css/admin.css?ver=spice-social-share/assets/css/custom.css?ver=spice-social-share/assets/js/socialshare.js?ver=HTML / DOM Fingerprints
spice_share_wrapperspice_share_titlesocial-icon-boxspice_social_share_listmarginspice_share_itemspice_social_share_linkspice_social_share_link_facebook+5 morearia-label="facebook"aria-label="twitter"aria-label="linkedin"aria-label="envelope"aria-label="pinterest"aria-label="WhatsApp"SPICE_SOCIAL_SHARE_URLSPICE_SOCIAL_SHARE_PATHSPICE_SOCIAL_SHARE_VERSION<div class="spice_share_wrapper"><p class="spice_share_title">Share this content:</p><div class="social-icon-box"><ul class="spice_social_share_list margin">