Plugin inspection:

Unconfirmed

Potentially unsafe

Last revised:

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

Before using this plugin, you should very carefully consider its potential problems and should conduct a thorough assessment. Read more about this recommendation.

Warnings

The version of this plugin that this recommendation was based on is known to be vulnerable to attack:

This recommendation applies to version 1.2.3 of this plugin, but the most recent version is 1.3.7. These findings may no longer be correct.

Findings

  • In unconfirmed.php on line 573 there is very nearly an SQL injection, saved only by WP’s emulation of magic_quotes_gpc
  • Contains an XSS vulnerability: https://advisories.dxw.com/advisories/xss-in-unconfirmed-1-2-3/

Reason for the 'Potentially unsafe' result

The plugin contains or is likely to contain a vulnerability which could be exploited by an end user and which would compromise the site’s confidentiality, integrity or availability:

Contains XSS vulnerability.

Failure criteria

  • Execution of unprepared SQL statements
  • Lack of proper output escaping

Read more about our failure criteria.