ApplyOnline – Application Form Builder and Manager

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 77% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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13 of the last 20 four- and five-star reviews came from accounts created within a month of posting the review.

Registering a wp.org account just to leave a review is common and often entirely legitimate. The share here is unusually high for the sample, so it's worth keeping in mind while reading the reviews.

1. ★★★★★ DrunkMunki

   1.1y ago

   tried emailing several emails, their contact form, on wordpress site.. no answer bought plugin but fields dont work, data is cleared, very buggy.

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2. ★★★★★ treecutter

   3.0y ago

   Really easy to use, and very fully featured plugin. And it just works ! Thank you to the developer for providing this plugin to the community.

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3. ★★★★★ growbig

   3.2y ago

   After form submission I get the following error: even no support from plugin author An unexpected error occured with error code: 500 error. . Please contact us for more information.

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4. ★★★★★ mlpsapcom

   4.6y ago

   This plugin is crap. We bought this to replace a free plugin that is no longer supported. Tried for days to get this running and looked like something out of the 1990’s. Replaced it with a [another form plugin] and it is responsive and modern. When I went to there site to make sure I did not get charged for another year the site was done. This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by mlpsapcom. Reason: misspelling This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).

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5. ★★★★★ physalis

   5.0y ago

   My customers bought three of their add-ons for this plugin. And despite them being entitled to support, WP Reloaded only responded once, submitting a bugfix for an add-on we didn’t buy, and after that never got back to my countless e-mails regarding bugs and inconsistencies in this plugin and the add-on plugins as well. If you look for a solid plugin that does work and your business depends on it, better think twice.

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6. ★★★★★ danielle101587

   5.6y ago

   I would give this product 0 stars if I could. Never worked since it was purchased. Was not able to submit applications. When registering, the user is not sent an email. The user needs to reset their password after registering just to access their account. Additionally we paid for the Applicant Tracking Add-On which was never able to be utilized since applications could not be submitted. What a complete waste of time and money!

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7. ★★★★★ fornaij

   6.0y ago

   Super Lightweight and Nice Plugin with excellent Support. I gave it a 4 out of 5, because of 2 reasons which i think would be fixed in any of the coming updates: 1. There’s a small bug while posting an ad at the back-end, The “Ad Feature” refreshes and discards the ad feature data after editing a published ad post. 2. A Front-end ad submission form would be an excellent feature for community based sites. All round, It’s a great, flexible and useful plugin for a variety of applications.

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8. ★★★★★ tousifkop

   6.3y ago

   Plugin works great.. and support team is also good and fast in replying. Recommended.

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7 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 5.3 ApplyOnline – Application Form Builder and Manager <= 2.6.7.6 - Missing Authorization ↗
   2026-07-01 CVE-2026-57721 Missing Authorization Affects <= 2.6.7.6 Patched in 2.6.8
2. Medium · 4.3 ApplyOnline – Application Form Builder and Manager <= 2.6.7.1 - Missing Authorization ↗
   2025-01-15 CVE-2025-22721 Missing Authorization Affects <= 2.6.7.1 Patched in 2.6.7.2
3. Medium · 5.3 ApplyOnline <= 2.6.2 - Unauthenticated Application Disclosure ↗
   2024-10-31 CVE-2024-10098 Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties Affects <= 2.6.2 Patched in 2.6.3
4. Medium · 4.3 ApplyOnline – Application Form Builder and Manager <= 2.6.2 - Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure ↗
   2024-05-21 CVE-2024-2036 Missing Authorization Affects <= 2.6.2 Patched in 2.6.3
5. Medium · 4.3 ApplyOnline – Application Form Builder and Manager <= 2.5.2 - Missing Authorization ↗
   2023-10-16 CVE-2023-46080 Missing Authorization Affects <= 2.5.3 Patched in 2.5.4
6. Medium · 6.1 ApplyOnline – Application Form Builder and Manager <= 2.5.5 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2023-10-12 CVE-2023-45756 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.5.5 Patched in 2.5.6
7. Medium · 4.4 ApplyOnline – Application Form Builder and Manager <= 2.5.5 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2023-06-26 CVE-2023-24391 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.5.5 Patched in 2.5.6

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

Translated into 6 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-05-26 3K+ → 2K+ down after 5 days in tier
2. 2026-05-21 2K+ → 3K+ up after 3 days in tier
3. 2026-05-18 3K+ → 2K+ down after 493 days in tier
4. 2025-01-10 4K+ → 3K+ down after 401 days in tier
5. 2023-12-06 5K+ → 4K+ down after 273 days in tier
6. 2023-03-08 6K+ → 5K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Formidable Forms – WordPress Form Builder for Contact Forms, Calculators, Quizzes & More 300K+ installs · 4.8★ · 4 shared tags A
• Custom Form Builder, Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Surveys, Polls 900+ installs · 4.6★ · 4 shared tags C
• WPForms – AI Form Builder for WordPress – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Survey Form, Quiz & More 5M+ installs · 4.8★ · 3 shared tags A
• Fluent Forms – Customizable Contact Forms, Survey, Quiz, & Conversational Form Builder 700K+ installs · 4.8★ · 3 shared tags A
• Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder 600K+ installs · 4.8★ · 3 shared tags A
• SureForms – Contact Form Builder, AI Forms, Payment Form, Survey & Quiz 500K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags A

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