Title: Vulnerable Plugin Checker
Author: Storm Rockwell
Published: <strong>April 7, 2016</strong>
Last modified: November 16, 2017

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# vulnerable-plugin-checker

 * [Details](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/vulnerable-plugin-checker/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/vulnerable-plugin-checker/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/vulnerable-plugin-checker/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/vulnerable-plugin-checker/)

## Description

This plugin has been closed as of June 25, 2026 and is not available for download.
This closure is permanent. Reason: Author Request.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[AVOID – NO LONGER KEPT UP-TO-DATE](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-no-longer-kept-up-to-date/)󠁿

 [Dan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dtrim/) February 24, 2021

AVOID – NO LONGER KEPT UP-TO-DATE

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### 󠀁[No way to get the information!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-way-to-get-the-information/)󠁿

 [toremo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/toremo/) May 21, 2018

It seems that this plugin is producing a whole lot false positive as it does not
evaluate base64 entries which often get used i.e. by nearly all 100 WPMUDEV plugins.“
VPC: One or more plugins currently installed have known vulnerabilities with their
current version. I suggest updating each vulnerable plugin if an update is available”
Many other security scanners incl Sucuri have no problem with that! And 5-star ratings
by its own developers does not mean that this plugin does anything. I would suggest
leaving the rating of your plugins to other people! Kind regards Toremo

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### 󠀁[Not ideal on WordPress multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-ideal-on-wordpress-multisite/)󠁿

 [thomaswm](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thomaswm/) January 28, 2018 1 reply

The plugin is very useful to see which plugins have known vulnerabilities. On WordPress
multisite, however, it displays this information in the site admin backends instead
of the network admin backend. That makes it a bit less useful, because the network
admins cannot see the information when they are in the network admin backend.

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### 󠀁[Awesome Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/horrible-60/)󠁿

 [session9studios](https://profiles.wordpress.org/session9studios/) July 3, 2017

I use it on all of my sites, definitely recommend this plugin to all developers!

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### 󠀁[I love my plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-love-my-plugin-3/)󠁿

 [Storm Rockwell](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stormrockwell/) December 9, 2016

I can say it has made me feel safer when hosting sites. I get alerted before a hack
takes place as I have dealt with hacked sites for far too long. I haven’t dealt 
with a hacked site running my plugin. Plugin vulnerabilities are the easiest way
for a hacker to get into your site/server.

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### 󠀁[Great Plugin!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-9547/)󠁿

 [rrbarry11](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rrbarry11/) September 3, 2016

Great plugin. Works just as expected with no additional setup needed

 [ Read all 8 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/vulnerable-plugin-checker/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Vulnerable Plugin Checker” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Storm Rockwell ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stormrockwell/)

[Translate “Vulnerable Plugin Checker” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/vulnerable-plugin-checker)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vulnerable-plugin-checker/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/vulnerable-plugin-checker/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/vulnerable-plugin-checker/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/vulnerable-plugin-checker/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **0.3.12**
 *  Last updated **9 years ago**
 *  Active installations **N/A**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.9.29**
 *  Language
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