The Prospect Farmer Security & Risk Analysis

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Insert The Prospect Farmer forms (www.theprospectfarmer.com) in pages and posts to capture prospects for your business.

10 active installs v1.2 PHP + WP 3.3+ Updated Jan 7, 2016
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85
A · Safe
CVEs total0
Unpatched0
Last CVENever
Safety Verdict

Is The Prospect Farmer Safe to Use in 2026?

Generally Safe

Score 85/100

The Prospect Farmer has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.

No known CVEs Updated 10yr ago
Risk Assessment

The plugin 'the-prospect-farmer' v1.2 exhibits a generally good security posture based on the static analysis. It has no known CVEs, indicating a lack of past exploitable vulnerabilities. The absence of dangerous functions, file operations, and external HTTP requests, combined with the consistent use of prepared statements for SQL queries, are strong indicators of secure coding practices. The presence of nonce and capability checks further bolsters its defenses. However, a significant concern lies in the output escaping, where only 17% of outputs are properly escaped. This leaves room for potential Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, especially if the shortcode is used in contexts where user-supplied data is displayed without adequate sanitization. While the attack surface is small and appears to have no unprotected entry points, the low percentage of properly escaped output is the primary area requiring immediate attention to mitigate risks.

Key Concerns

  • Low percentage of properly escaped output
Vulnerabilities
None known

The Prospect Farmer Security Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities — this is a good sign.
Version History

The Prospect Farmer Release Timeline

v1.2Current
v1.1
Code Analysis
Analyzed Apr 16, 2026

The Prospect Farmer Code Analysis

Dangerous Functions
0
Raw SQL Queries
0
0 prepared
Unescaped Output
10
2 escaped
Nonce Checks
2
Capability Checks
5
File Operations
0
External Requests
0
Bundled Libraries
1

Bundled Libraries

TinyMCE

Output Escaping

17% escaped12 total outputs
Data Flows · Security
All sanitized

Data Flow Analysis

2 flows
tpf_admin_page (theprospectfarmer.php:160)
Source (user input) Sink (dangerous op) Sanitizer Transform Unsanitized Sanitized
Attack Surface

The Prospect Farmer Attack Surface

Entry Points1
Unprotected0

Shortcodes 1

[tpf] theprospectfarmer.php:79
WordPress Hooks 8
actionadmin_menutheprospectfarmer.php:27
actionadmin_print_scriptstheprospectfarmer.php:44
actionadmin_print_stylestheprospectfarmer.php:54
actionadmin_footertheprospectfarmer.php:319
filterplugin_action_linkstheprospectfarmer.php:342
filtermce_external_pluginstheprospectfarmer.php:356
filtermce_buttonstheprospectfarmer.php:357
actioninittheprospectfarmer.php:370
Maintenance & Trust

The Prospect Farmer Maintenance & Trust

Maintenance Signals

WordPress version tested4.4.34
Last updatedJan 7, 2016
PHP min version
Downloads2K

Community Trust

Rating100/100
Number of ratings1
Active installs10
Developer Profile

The Prospect Farmer Developer Profile

The Prospect Farmer

1 plugin · 10 total installs

84
trust score
Avg Security Score
85/100
Avg Patch Time
30 days
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Detection Fingerprints

How We Detect The Prospect Farmer

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

Asset Fingerprints

Asset Paths
/wp-content/plugins/the-prospect-farmer/tpf-admin-css.css/wp-content/plugins/the-prospect-farmer/tpf-admin-js.js
Script Paths
/wp-content/plugins/the-prospect-farmer/tpf-admin-js.js
Version Parameters
the-prospect-farmer/tpf-admin-css.css?v=the-prospect-farmer/tpf-admin-js.js?v=

HTML / DOM Fingerprints

CSS Classes
tpf_sectiontpf_fld_titletpf_name_wrapsmallTexttpf_back
HTML Comments
<!-- Start The Prospect Farmer form --><!-- End The Prospect Farmer form --><!-- The Prospect Admin page -->
Data Attributes
id="tpf_form"id="tpf_name"id="tpf_content"
Shortcode Output
[tpf]
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about The Prospect Farmer