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Use with caution

Last revised:

Confidence: Medium
This plugin has been given a short, targeted code review.

Before using this plugin, you should carefully consider these findings. Read more about this recommendation.

Warnings

This recommendation applies to version 1.10.13 of this plugin, but the most recent version is 1.12.1. These findings may no longer be correct.

View the recommendation for version 1.12.1 of this plugin instead

Findings

This plugin takes an idiosyncratic approach to SQL generation. It contains a large number of long and complicated SQL queries and there is no organised or methodical approach to generating them safely.

This plugin also has a history of broken releases, including one which contained malicious code added to the distribution after the author’s website was hacked in July 2013. The release containing malicious code was, however, promptly fixed and an updated version released.

Reason for the 'Use with caution' result

The plugin has been given this recommendation at the tester's discretion:

Failure criteria

  • Execution of unprepared SQL statements
  • Poor architecture
  • Failure to use available core functionality

Read more about our failure criteria.