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BadgerScan

Name: BadgerScan
Author: cyberbadger

See your site the way an attacker does and the way only an admin can, reconciled into one honest A to F grade.

BadgerScan ranks #55,499 among WordPress.org plugins with 1+ active installations, is #2,854 of 5,058 in the Security category, a 1/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Oct 8, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 7 (Current: 7.1.4)

v0.5.28 Current Version v0.5.28

Updated 4 weeks ago Last Update on 08 Oct, 2026

Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on

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Plugin Details

Version: 0.5.28
Last Updated: Oct 08, 2026
Requires WP: 5.8+
Tested Up To: 7
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: cyberbadger

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hardening malware scanner security vulnerability

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about BadgerScan

No. Every check is read-only. It reads WordPress state and reports on it; it never edits your files, your settings, or your content. Like any plugin it does store its own settings (your consent flag, your connect key) and caches its last result, and it removes all of them when you delete it.

No. Every check, the grade, and the automatic daily scan all work with no account. An account adds what the service does for you: the combined outside-plus-inside grade, scan history, email alerts, and the specific CVEs.

Because it looks for them. Part of the scan reads files in your uploads folder and checks whether any of them contain the code patterns a PHP backdoor uses. Those patterns have to appear in our source as plain text so we can search for them. BadgerScan never calls any of them: it has no eval, no base64_decode, and no shell access anywhere. They are kept readable, in one clearly labelled list, rather than disguised to slip past a scanner.

Only read-only findings (versions, counts, and flags) plus your site URL, sent to the BadgerScan service to compute your grade. Never your content, usernames, or passwords. See the External services section above.

Create a free account at https://badgerscan.cyberbadger.ca/account, copy your connect key, and paste it into the BadgerScan screen in wp-admin.