WEN Cookie Notice Bar Security & Risk Analysis

wordpress.org/plugins/wen-cookie-notice-bar

Allow to add a simple cookie notice bar for making your site GDPR compliant according to EU law.

0 active installs v1.1 PHP 7.4+ WP 6.0+ Updated Mar 24, 2025
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CVEs total0
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Safety Verdict

Is WEN Cookie Notice Bar Safe to Use in 2026?

Generally Safe

Score 92/100

WEN Cookie Notice Bar has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.

No known CVEs Updated 1yr ago
Risk Assessment

The "wen-cookie-notice-bar" plugin version 1.1 exhibits a generally strong security posture, with no identified vulnerabilities in its history and a clean static analysis report regarding dangerous functions, file operations, and external HTTP requests. The absence of critical or high severity taint flows further reinforces this positive outlook. However, a significant concern arises from the SQL query, which is not using prepared statements. This, combined with a relatively low percentage of properly escaped output, indicates potential for SQL injection or cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities if the input to the single SQL query is not rigorously sanitized elsewhere or if any of the unescaped outputs contain user-supplied data. The presence of a nonce check is good, but the lack of capability checks on any potential entry points (though there are none explicitly identified in the attack surface) could be a concern if new entry points are added in future versions without proper authorization. Overall, the plugin appears to be well-maintained with no historical security issues, but the non-prepared SQL query and less-than-ideal output escaping are areas requiring attention.

Key Concerns

  • SQL query not using prepared statements
  • Low percentage of properly escaped output
Vulnerabilities
None known

WEN Cookie Notice Bar Security Vulnerabilities

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

WEN Cookie Notice Bar Release Timeline

v1.1Current
v1.0
Code Analysis
Analyzed Mar 17, 2026

WEN Cookie Notice Bar Code Analysis

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

SQL Query Safety

0% prepared1 total queries

Output Escaping

38% escaped8 total outputs
Data Flows · Security
All sanitized

Data Flow Analysis

2 flows
wcnb_settings_page (inc\classes\class-wcnb-admin.php:28)
Source (user input) Sink (dangerous op) Sanitizer Transform Unsanitized Sanitized
Attack Surface

WEN Cookie Notice Bar Attack Surface

Entry Points0
Unprotected0
WordPress Hooks 5
actionadmin_menuinc\classes\class-wcnb-admin.php:5
filterplugin_action_links_wen-cookie-notice-bar/wen-cookie-notice-bar.phpinc\classes\class-wcnb-admin.php:7
actionwp_enqueue_scriptsinc\classes\class-wcnb.php:5
actionwp_footerinc\classes\class-wcnb.php:6
actionplugins_loadedwen-cookie-notice-bar.php:45
Maintenance & Trust

WEN Cookie Notice Bar Maintenance & Trust

Maintenance Signals

WordPress version tested6.7.5
Last updatedMar 24, 2025
PHP min version7.4
Downloads1K

Community Trust

Rating0/100
Number of ratings0
Active installs0
Developer Profile

WEN Cookie Notice Bar Developer Profile

Web Experts Nepal

3 plugins · 90 total installs

88
trust score
Avg Security Score
92/100
Avg Patch Time
30 days
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Detection Fingerprints

How We Detect WEN Cookie Notice Bar

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

Asset Fingerprints

Asset Paths
/wp-content/plugins/wen-cookie-notice-bar/assets/css/wen-cookie-notice-bar.css/wp-content/plugins/wen-cookie-notice-bar/assets/js/wen-cookie-notice-bar.js
Script Paths
/wp-content/plugins/wen-cookie-notice-bar/assets/js/wen-cookie-notice-bar.js

HTML / DOM Fingerprints

CSS Classes
wcnb-cookie-info
Data Attributes
id="wcnb-cookie-info"
JS Globals
setWCNB
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about WEN Cookie Notice Bar