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Skimlinks Affiliate Marketing Tool

by Skimlinks · Email & Marketing

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Skimlinks is a content-to-commerce platform that helps publishers monetize outbound links to merchants.

⚠ Few reviews
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73 Health · B
Maintenance 82/100
Rating quality 66/100
Support 70/100

73 health vs 63 average across 1,297 Email & Marketing plugins

800+

Active installs

≈860 estimated

58.4K

Total downloads

since 2010

3.66★

Rating (adjusted)

3.2★ raw · 6 reviews

+45%

224

Downloads · 30d

category median +18%

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.

66 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: WP compatibility

Update recency 92/100
WP compatibility 10/100
Rating quality 56/100
Listing tuning 100/100

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+45% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

224

now · peak 960

21030d 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

Skimlinks Affiliate · #7520 you Auto Affiliate Links · #4264 Keywords to Links Co · #7667 Easy Affiliate Links · #2646

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.2Stars · 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.

263per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
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.

1

releases in the last 12 months

8mo ago

latest release · v1.3.1

10

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.3.1 · 8mo ago1.3 · 8.7y ago1.2.4 · 10.5y ago1.2.3 · 12.6y ago1.2.2 · 12.9y ago1.2.1 · 13.2y ago1.2 · 15.3y ago1.1.1 · 16.1y ago1.1 · 16.2y ago1.0 · 16.3y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 96% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.3 96%
v1.2 4.1%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “800+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
800–900 ≈860

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

Install history · since 2016-03-22 · 1,425 observations

800Installs · 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 · 6 reviews

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5★
2 4★
1 3★
1 2★
0 1★
2

Details

Version
1.3.1
Last updated
8mo ago
Added
2010-05-05 · 16 yrs old
Requires WP
2.7.1
Tested up to
4.9.31
Requires PHP
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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

2 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

  1. Medium · 5.5 Skimlinks Affiliate Marketing Tool <= 1.3 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Server-Side Request Forgery ↗
    2025-09-22 CVE-2025-57943 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Affects <= 1.3 No patch available
  2. Medium · 6.5 Skimlinks Affiliate Marketing Tool <= 1.3 - Missing Authorization ↗
    2025-09-22 CVE-2025-57944 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.3 Patched in 1.3.1

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 7.0.1

✓ 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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-04-18 900+ → 800+ down after 14 days in tier
  2. 2026-04-04 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-04-03 900+ → 800+ down after 2 days in tier
  4. 2026-04-01 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2026-03-31 900+ → 800+ down after 132 days in tier
  6. 2025-11-19 1K+ → 900+ down after 960 days in tier
  7. 2023-04-04 2K+ → 1K+ down

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