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Disallow Pwned Password

by Itineris Limited · Security

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Disallow WordPress and WooCommerce users using pwned passwords.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 64 average across 997 Security plugins

10+

Active installs

≈19 estimated

2.0K

Total downloads

since 2019

4.06★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+17%

28

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.27, well behind 6.8.

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.

39 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100
WP compatibility 11/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2750 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-06 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+17% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

28

now · peak 57

2830d 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

Disallow Pwned Passw · #38343 you Passwords Evolved · #5708 Google Authenticator · #1168 Limit Login Attempts · #196

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.

2.8Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
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.

0

releases in the last 12 months

7.5y ago

latest release · v0.3.2

3

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.3.2 · 7.5y ago0.3.1 · 7.5y ago0.3.0 · 7.5y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v0.3 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈19

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

Install history · since 2019-07-21 · 1,385 observations

10Installs · 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. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
0.3.2
Last updated
7.5y ago
Added
2019-02-19 · 7 yrs old
Requires WP
4.9.8
Tested up to
5.0.27
Requires PHP
7.0
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Recent review vibe

read from the latest 2 reviews to 2019-04-23
Positive Praise

Both reviewers call it a set-and-forget fix, and one says it's the kind of protection WordPress core should ship itself.

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ Luke Cavanagh
    7.4y ago

    A solid solution for what should be built into WordPress core.

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  2. ★★★★★ Mariano Pérez Caro
    7.4y ago

    All you have to do is activate it and it goes to work. Fantastic.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.4

✓ 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 1 language, 1 at 90% or more

Norwegian (Bokmål) 100%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-03-24 20+ → 10+ down after 3 days in tier
  2. 2024-03-21 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2024-03-20 20+ → 10+ down after 8 days in tier
  4. 2024-03-12 10+ → 20+ up after 36 days in tier
  5. 2024-02-05 20+ → 10+ down after 14 days in tier
  6. 2024-01-22 10+ → 20+ up after 2 days in tier
  7. 2024-01-20 20+ → 10+ down after 299 days in tier
  8. 2023-03-27 30+ → 20+ down after 3 days in tier

Competes with

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