16 May 2025

Plugin Security Scorecard April Results

April was the ninth full month our Plugin Security Scorecard was available. A fair amount of plugins were checked. A total of 77 plugins were checked last month. With 5 of those plugins being security plugins.

The overall results were not great. Only one plugin got an A. No plugins got an A+ or B+. Those three grades require the developer of the plugin to be taking proactive measures with security, so most plugin developers are not taking measures to provide the best security. 16 of the plugins did get a B, which requires that they are avoiding unnecessary security issues.

7 plugins got an F grade. Those plugins have a collective 3.81 million installs. One of those plugins is known to be vulnerable, and another still contains a known vulnerable library that we warned the developer about months ago. (The developer of another did update flagged vulnerable libraries in the plugin after we notified they were detected by the tool.)

Latest Security Scorecard Grades for WordPress Security Plugins

Latest WordPress Plugin Security Scorecard Grades

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