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Threat Scan Plugin

by Keith P. Graham · Uncategorized

This is a very simple threat scan that looks for things out of place in the content directory as well as the database.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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53 Health · D
Maintenance 25
Rating quality 74
Support 70

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,379 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-31%
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Trailing 30-day total · the growth curve wp.org stopped showing

Directory rank

Popularity rank over time · lower is better

Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “400+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
400–500 ≈440

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

Install trend · reconstructed from 1379 daily snapshots

Details

Version
1.4
Last updated
2.0y ago
Added
2010-04-09
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
6.6.5
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-04-02 500+ → 400+ down after 573 days in band
  2. 2024-09-06 600+ → 500+ down after 4 days in band
  3. 2024-09-02 500+ → 600+ up after 8 days in band
  4. 2024-08-25 600+ → 500+ down after 223 days in band
  5. 2024-01-15 700+ → 600+ down after 4 days in band
  6. 2024-01-11 600+ → 700+ up after 2 days in band
  7. 2024-01-09 700+ → 600+ down after 1 days in band
  8. 2024-01-08 600+ → 700+ up after 2 days in band

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Threat Scan Plugin: 400+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-15. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/threat-scan-plugin