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Brave – Create Popup, Optins, Lead Generation, Survey, Sticky Elements & Interactive Content

by Brave · eCommerce

The best drag-and-drop Popup Builder for WordPress. Create Popups, exit-intent popups, slide-ins, and lead generation forms & Woocommerce popups i …

How scoring works →
91 Health · A
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 95/100
Support 70/100

91 health vs 68 average across 5,561 eCommerce plugins

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

84 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Support resolution

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 93/100
Listing tuning 100/100
Support resolution 0/100

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,421 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+14% vs prior 30d
218Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

11.9K

now · peak 25.2K

11.9K30d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Brave · #1354 you YITH WooCommerce Pop · #4582 Aspexi Sweet Popups · #19945 Popup Builder & Popu · #55

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.8Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

595per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Actively maintained
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

4

releases in the last 12 months

2mo ago

latest release · v0.8.6

80

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.8.6 · 2mo ago0.8.5 · 7mo ago0.8.4 · 9mo ago0.8.3 · 9mo ago0.8.2 · 1.0y ago0.8.1 · 1.0y ago0.8.0 · 1.1y ago0.7.7 · 1.2y ago0.7.6 · 1.6y ago0.7.5 · 1.9y ago0.7.4 · 1.9y ago0.7.3 · 1.9y ago0.7.2 · 2.0y ago0.7.1 · 2.0y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 68% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v0.8 68%
v0.7 16%
v0.6 10%
Older / other versions 5.9%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
20K–30K ≈29K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2020-08-03 · 1,432 observations

20KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price.

Details

Version
0.8.7
Last updated
19d ago
Added
2019-11-30 · 6 yrs old
Requires WP
5.2
Tested up to
7.0.4
Requires PHP
7.2.24

Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 0.8.6 Fixed: Resolves broken access control vulenrablity in Popup Previews. Reported by Huseyin Mertoglu. Fixed: Resolves XSS vulenrabilty in forms elements via UTM. Reported by Huseyin Mertoglu. 0.8.6
  2. Version 0.8.5 Added: Ability to Search Newlsetter list item in Newsletter dropdown field. 0.8.5
  3. Version 0.8.4 Fixed: Draft Popup Content could be loaded by anyone using custom Javascript. (CVSS 5.3) 0.8.4
  4. Version 0.8.3 Fixed: ActiveCampaign Subscription Issue. 0.8.3
  5. Version 0.8.2 Fixed: Newsletter form Settings could not be accessed. Fixed: Form Phone Field Validation. Fixed: Minor CSS issues. Added: Ability to reload page on Button Click. 0.8.2
  6. Version 0.8.1 Fixed: The Newsletter Plugin Integration. Fixed: Broken AWeber Integration. Fixed: Click Goal tracking was not working. 0.8.1

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

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

  1. 2025-12-23 CVE-2025-68508 Missing Authorization Affects <= 0.8.3 Patched in 0.8.4
  2. 2024-08-16 CVE-2024-43337 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 0.7.0 Patched in 0.7.1
  3. 2024-06-03 CVE-2024-35655 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 0.6.9 Patched in 0.7.0
  4. 2024-03-28 CVE-2024-30453 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Affects <= 0.6.5 Patched in 0.6.6
  5. 2023-12-27 CVE-2023-51534 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 0.6.2 Patched in 0.6.3

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

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

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 4 languages, 2 at 90% or more

Russian 100%
Korean 95%
Ukrainian 29%
Dutch 16%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2023-02-13 10K+ → 20K+ up

Competes with

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