WPVulnerability WordPress plugin

This plugin taps into the power of the free and unlimited WPVulnerability API to deliver vulnerability assessments directly within your WordPress dashboard. It’s an essential tool for website administrators, developers, and anyone keen on maintaining a secure WordPress environment.

Secure your WordPress experience today, your first line of defense against vulnerabilities!

Table of Contents

• WPVulnerability 4.1.0
  • Compatibility
  • Tests
  • Changelog
    • [4.1.0] – 2025-09-16
    • [4.0.4] – 2025-04-07
    • [4.0.3] – 2024-10-28
• Using the plugin
  • WP-CLI
  • REST API
    • Authentication
  • Configurations
    • From mail
    • Force hiding checks
    • Cache duration
• Security
• Privacy
• Vulnerabilities
• Contributors

Using the plugin

WP-CLI

You can use the following WP-CLI commands to manage and check vulnerabilities:

• Core: wp wpvulnerability core
• Plugins: wp wpvulnerability plugins
• Themes: wp wpvulnerability themes
• PHP: wp wpvulnerability php
• Apache HTTPD: wp wpvulnerability apache
• nginx: wp wpvulnerability nginx
• MariaDB: wp wpvulnerability mariadb
• MySQL: wp wpvulnerability mysql
• ImageMagick: wp wpvulnerability imagemagick
• curl: wp wpvulnerability curl
• memcached: wp wpvulnerability memcached
• Redis: wp wpvulnerability redis
• SQLite: wp wpvulnerability sqlite

All commands support the --format option to specify the output format:

• --format=table: Displays the results in a table format (default).
• --format=json: Displays the results in JSON format.

To configure the plugin you can use:

• Hide component: wp wpvulnerability config hide <component> [on|off]
• Notification email (comma separatted): wp wpvulnerability config email <emails>
• Notification period: wp wpvulnerability config period <never|daily|weekly>
• Cache duration (in hours): wp wpvulnerability config cache <1|6|12|24>

Need help?

• wp wpvulnerability --help: Displays help information for WPVulnerability commands.
• wp wpvulnerability [command] --help: Displays help information for a WPVulnerability command.

REST API

The WPVulnerability plugin provides several REST API endpoints to fetch vulnerability information for different components of your WordPress site.

• Core: /wpvulnerability/v1/core
• Plugins: /wpvulnerability/v1/plugins
• Themes: /wpvulnerability/v1/themes
• PHP: /wpvulnerability/v1/php
• Apache HTTPD: /wpvulnerability/v1/apache
• nginx: /wpvulnerability/v1/nginx
• MariaDB: /wpvulnerability/v1/mariadb
• MySQL: /wpvulnerability/v1/mysql
• ImageMagick: /wpvulnerability/v1/imagemagick
• curl: /wpvulnerability/v1/curl
• memcached: /wpvulnerability/v1/memcached
• Redis: /wpvulnerability/v1/redis
• SQLite: /wpvulnerability/v1/sqlite

Authentication

The WPVulnerability REST API uses Application Passwords for authentication. You need to include a valid Application Password in the Authorization header of your requests.

Example Request with Authentication

curl -X GET https://example.com/wp-json/wpvulnerability/v1/plugins -u username:application_password

Replace username with your WordPress username and application_password with your Application Password.

Configurations

From mail

Since 3.2.2

If, for some reason, you need the emails sent by the plugin to have a From different from the site administrator, you can change it from the wp-config.php by adding a constant:

define( 'WPVULNERABILITY_MAIL', 'sender@example.com' );

Force hiding checks

Since 4.1.0

If you want to always hide a specific component, you can define a constant in wp-config.php. When set to true, the option will be checked automatically in the settings screen and the related analysis will be skipped.

define( 'WPVULNERABILITY_HIDE_APACHE', true );

Available constants: WPVULNERABILITY_HIDE_CORE, WPVULNERABILITY_HIDE_PLUGINS, WPVULNERABILITY_HIDE_THEMES, WPVULNERABILITY_HIDE_PHP, WPVULNERABILITY_HIDE_APACHE, WPVULNERABILITY_HIDE_NGINX, WPVULNERABILITY_HIDE_MARIADB, WPVULNERABILITY_HIDE_MYSQL, WPVULNERABILITY_HIDE_IMAGEMAGICK, WPVULNERABILITY_HIDE_CURL, WPVULNERABILITY_HIDE_MEMCACHED, WPVULNERABILITY_HIDE_REDIS, WPVULNERABILITY_HIDE_SQLITE.

Cache duration

Since 4.1.0

By default, data from the API is cached for 12 hours. To change this, define WPVULNERABILITY_CACHE_HOURS in wp-config.php with one of 1, 6, 12 or 24. This value overrides the setting screen and WP-CLI command.

define( 'WPVULNERABILITY_CACHE_HOURS', 24 );

Security

This plugin adheres to the following security measures and review protocols for each version:

• WordPress Plugin Handbook
• WordPress Plugin Security
• WordPress APIs Security
• WordPress Coding Standards
• Plugin Check (PCP)
• SonarCloud Code Review
• Amplify Code Check

Privacy

• This plugin or the WPVulnerability API does not collect any information about your site, your identity, the plugins, themes or content the site has.

Vulnerabilities

• No vulnerabilities have been published up to version 4.1.0.

Found a security vulnerability? Please report it to us privately at the WPVulnerability GitHub repository.

Contributors

You can contribute to this plugin at the WPVulnerability GitHub repository.