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Smart Cookie Kit

by Nicola Modugno · Privacy & Consent

Preventive blocking of third party cookies for GDPR/EU Cookie Law/ePrivacy. Translatable, cacheable, lightweight, powerful!

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
54 Health · D
Maintenance 10/100
Rating quality 94/100
Support 70/100

54 health vs 66 average across 513 Privacy & Consent plugins

Removal-risk signals

36/100

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

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.6.19.

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.

56 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 18/100
WP compatibility 25/100
Rating quality 90/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1058 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+123% vs prior 30d
59Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

509

now · peak 2.4K

50030d 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

Smart Cookie Kit · #4207 you CookieAdmin · #148 Awesome GDPR Complia · #9182 Simple Cookie Contro · #12891

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

5Stars · 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.

167per 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

2.9y ago

latest release · v2.3.2

30

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.3.2 · 2.9y ago2.3.1 · 2.9y ago2.3.0 · 5.7y ago2.2.4 · 5.9y ago2.2.3 · 6.7y ago2.2.2 · 7.0y ago2.2.1 · 7.0y ago2.1.1 · 7.4y ago2.2.0 · 7.4y ago2.1.3 · 7.8y ago2.1.2 · 7.9y ago2.1.0 · 7.9y ago2.0.6 · 8.2y ago2.0.5 · 8.2y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 88% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.3 88%
v2.2 9.6%
Older / other versions 2.8%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “3K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
3K–4K ≈3.9K

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

Install history · since 2019-05-04 · 1,425 observations

3KInstalls · 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. The recent download trend is too spiky to read.

Details

Version
2.3.2
Last updated
2.9y ago
Added
2015-12-01 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
4.6
Tested up to
5.6.19
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. Anonymous User 22010777
    2.5y ago

    Simple and blocks correct cookies. My recommendation!

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  2. Rossella Bianchi
    3.8y ago

    Con questo plugin – che tecnicamente funziona molto bene – sono in grado di dare facilmente un aspetto professionale con un design unico ai siti che realizzo.

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  3. lukiluke
    4.4y ago

    Uno dei migliori plugin in circolazione. Per la perfezione mancano solo alcuni elementi che sono certo lo renderebbero il migliore in assoluto. Il pulsante di chiusura (la famosa X che il legislatore Italiano ha voluto imporre) e la gestione singola dei cookie. Un grande grazie allo sviluppatore che lo rende disponibile e che ha condiviso questo bellissimo lavoro. This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by lukiluke.

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  4. pagrob
    4.6y ago

    Finalmente un plugin che fa solo quello che serve senza influire negativamente sul SEO con la parola cookie ripetuta all’infinito.

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  5. Francesco Canovi
    4.6y ago

    Unfortunately this plugin is not compliant with the current GDPR which needs a differentiated cookie consent collection.

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  6. carlotoscani
    4.7y ago

    Plugin fantastico

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  7. 24steps
    5.3y ago

    I really like this plugin. Could you possibly update it to reload the page when the user enables cookies? I have some code that is only included dependant on if ( function_exists(‘NMod\SmartCookieKit\can_unlock_statistics_cookies’) && NMod\SmartCookieKit\can_unlock_statistics_cookies() ) Thanks Ceri

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  8. berdisoft
    5.5y ago

    The best plugin for GDPR compliance I have seen

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 2.3.2 Fixed a XSS vulnerability (thanks to patchstack.com ) 2.3.2
  2. Version 2.3.1 Minor bug fix 2.3.1
  3. Version 2.3.0 Added a compatibility mode for Facebook Pixel (for official and unofficial plugins – EXPERIMENTAL). Google reCaptcha block can be optionally disabled. SCK now manages the AutomateWoo “Session tracking” feature. It is now 2.3.0
  4. Version 2.2.4 SCK was not blocking cookies on wp-login.php page. Fixed (thanks to @delbono72). SCK was not blocking some ShareThis cookies. Fixed. SCK is now compatible with Polylang PRO SCK is now compatible with GAinWP Google Analyt 2.2.4
  5. Version 2.2.3 Autoptimize’s author changed a filter in its code in version 2.6.0. Updated SCK to reflect this change Corrected a bug to remove all SCK data from the database on uninstall 2.2.3
  6. Version 2.2.2 SCK is now compatible with Async Javascript Bridge theme changed its shortcode for adding Google Maps. SCK updated to correctly manage them. Added the Instagram embed script to the block of SCK. It is now possibile to IN 2.2.2

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

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

  1. 2023-10-06 CVE-2023-45608 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects < 2.3.2 Patched in 2.3.2

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 6.3.1

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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 4 languages, 0 at 90% or more · development strings

English (Canada) 9%
Italian 9%
German 8%
Dutch 3%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-06-21 4K+ → 3K+ down after 830 days in tier
  2. 2023-03-14 5K+ → 4K+ down

Competes with

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