Security and Vulnerability Shield
This plugin will scan your plugins (and WordPress) version for more then 3000+ known vulnerabilities and exploits.
4(2 reviews)
·80 active installs·Updated 10 years agoAs of April 2026, Security and Vulnerability Shield is a WordPress Free plugin with 80 active installations and a 4/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 7.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Ultimate Blocks – 25+ Gutenberg Blocks….
4/52 reviews
80active installs
7.2K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
Plugin made to ease the process of keeping your site safe (from potential exploits/vulnerabilities in WordPress or plugins).
Anyone can use it, no coding skills required, just click “Scan” (next to “Add New” in the Plugins section in WordPress)
and you will get an immediate report for all of your currently installed plugins – which one is vulnerable and which one
is safe.
No need to monitor 20 websites and receive 100+ emails (from groups and newsletters) so that you can keep up to date
with the latest vulnerabilities in WordPress and its related plugins… our team will do that for you!
Note: Currently, we are limiting the number of scan per day (per ip/site) to 10, mainly because we want to protect our
servers from getting hammered by bad users. In the…
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Ratings & Reviews
42 reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.9+ requiredTested up to 4.3.34 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
2.2
- Improved UI rendering for plugins with plugin-identifiers not matching their install dirs names, by using the same
logic from WordPress for generating “plugin slugs”, where possible and falling back the same way as in WordPress.
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