
Update Intervals Security & Risk Analysis
wordpress.org/plugins/update-intervalsChange the intervals of automatic updates.
Is Update Intervals Safe to Use in 2026?
Generally Safe
Score 100/100Update Intervals has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.
The "update-intervals" plugin version 1.05 demonstrates a strong security posture based on the provided static analysis. The complete absence of any identified attack surface, including AJAX handlers, REST API routes, shortcodes, or cron events, significantly limits potential entry points for attackers. Furthermore, the code shows excellent practices regarding SQL queries and output escaping, with 100% of operations utilizing prepared statements and proper escaping, respectively. The lack of dangerous functions, file operations, external HTTP requests, nonce checks, and capability checks in the analyzed code further bolsters its security. The plugin also has a clean vulnerability history with no known CVEs recorded.
While the static analysis reveals no immediate or inherent vulnerabilities within the code itself, the absence of certain security checks, such as nonce and capability checks, across all entry points (which are coincidentally zero) represents a missed opportunity to enforce robust security measures if any were to be introduced in future versions. The taint analysis also yielded no results, which is a positive sign but doesn't entirely negate the possibility of zero-day vulnerabilities. Overall, the plugin appears very secure in its current state due to its minimal attack surface and good coding practices, but the lack of explicit security checks, even if not currently exploitable, warrants a slight deduction for completeness.
Key Concerns
- No nonce checks implemented
- No capability checks implemented
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Maintenance & Trust
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Update Intervals Developer Profile
54 plugins · 56K total installs
How We Detect Update Intervals
Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.
Asset Fingerprints
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