BuddyForms

BuddyForms has urgent issues capping its growth.

Active installs

800+

Rating

4.8★

180 reviews

Downloads / 30d

2.9K

Momentum

+283%

30d vs the 30d before

Against 2509 tracked Forms plugins: health 77 vs 65 average · rating 4.73★ vs 3.81★.

What we found

1 critical 1 opportunity 3 strengths

Open security vulnerability

Critical

A known unpatched vulnerability is recorded against this plugin.

What to do: Patch and release an advisory before anything else.

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Healthy but under-discovered

Opportunity

This plugin scores 77/100 on health yet sits at 800 installs. The product is good; distribution is the gap.

What to do: A WP Mayor review and placement can put it in front of the right audience.

✓

Strong momentum. Downloads are accelerating (+283% vs prior month). Good moment to amplify.

✓

Actively maintained. Updated within the last quarter, a strong trust and ranking signal.

✓

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Downloads, last 2 years

From our own archive, not wp.org's current-week figure.

Full report for BuddyForms →

3731 Oct 2026

6003000

3731 Oct 2026

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BuddyForms is a strong product that not enough people know about.

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