Plugin inspection:

WP Symposium

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

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:

sql injection, xss, file deletion, etc

Failure criteria

  • Lack of input sanitisation
  • Execution of unprepared SQL statements
  • Failure to use available core functionality
  • Unsafe file or network IO
  • Lack of proper output escaping

Read more about our failure criteria.