Spots Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/spotsContent manage those little snippets of text that you need across your WordPress site and in widgets properly. Forget the text widget.
Is Spots Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 85/100Spots has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The "spots" plugin v1.3.10 exhibits a mixed security posture. On the positive side, there are no known critical or high severity vulnerabilities in its history, and the plugin does not perform file operations or external HTTP requests. The taint analysis found no unsanitized paths, indicating a potential for robust input handling. However, significant concerns arise from the static analysis. The presence of two AJAX handlers without authentication checks represents a direct attack surface that could be exploited. Furthermore, only 42% of output is properly escaped, suggesting a risk of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, especially in conjunction with the unprotected AJAX endpoints.
Key Concerns
- AJAX handlers without auth checks
- Low percentage of properly escaped output
- Low number of nonce checks relative to entry points
Spots Security Vulnerabilities
Spots Code Analysis
SQL Query Safety
Output Escaping
Data Flow Analysis
Spots Attack Surface
AJAX Handlers 3
Shortcodes 1
WordPress Hooks 33
Maintenance & Trust
Spots Maintenance & Trust
Maintenance Signals
Community Trust
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Spots Developer Profile
4 plugins · 4K total installs
How We Detect Spots
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
/wp-content/plugins/spots/js/spots.js/wp-content/plugins/spots/css/spots.css/wp-content/plugins/spots/js/spots.jsspots/style.css?ver=spots.js?ver=HTML / DOM Fingerprints
spots-search-inputspots-search-results<!-- Spot Widget --><!-- END Spot Widget -->data-spot-iddata-spot-actionspots_ajax_object/wp-json/spots/v1/spot[spot[/spot]