Plugin inspection:

WP Multi RSS Importer

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.

Findings

This plugin is poorly architected, exhibits consistently poor coding style and contains a prolific number basic errors, including security flaws, making it highly likely to be vulnerable to attack.

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:

This plugin is almost certainly vulnerable to numerous categories of vulnerability.

Failure criteria

  • Lack of input sanitisation
  • Execution of unprepared SQL statements
  • Poor coding style
  • Poor architecture
  • Unsafe file or network IO
  • Lack of proper output escaping

Read more about our failure criteria.