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Code Analyzer

Description

Scans plugin files for matches to custom regex patterns. Useful for checking whether your plugins don’t do anything shady.

Default search patterns match the following:

  • Exploitable PHP and JS functions and HTML tags
  • Code (de)obfuscation
  • Remote requests (including pingbacks, trackbacks and mail sending)
  • Filesystem modification
  • Direct database queries
  • User creation
  • Inline and enqueued scripts
  • Unicode and ASCII character literals, integer literals
  • URL addresses
  • Strings containing “swf”
  • Google Analytics and AdSense IDs

Screenshots

  • Configuration page
  • Example code analysis: Akismet

Installation

  1. Install the plugin.
  2. Go to Settings > Code Analyzer to configure the plugin.
  3. To analyze a plugin, click the appropriate “Analyze code” link on the Plugins page.

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Contributors & Developers

“Code Analyzer” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

0.2

  • Results are now sorted alphabetically
  • New option “Results display mode”
  • New search pattern “User creation”