WordPress plugin · mwp-herd-effect
Is Social Proof Popups & Real-Time Notifications safe?
Safe on 6.2.5 or newer.
The current version, 6.2.5, is past every affected range on record (5 of 5 records list one). Keep it updated and you’re clear of them.
- Flaws on record
- 5
- High or critical
- 0
- Exploited
- none
- Current version
- 6.2.5
- Last updated
- Aug 25, 2026
- Active installs
- 900+
Every recorded flaw
- Jan 24, 2025Herd Effects: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)CVE-2025-24716 · affects up to 6.2.1 · reported by PatchstackMedium 5.4
- May 2, 2024Herd Effects: Does not have CSRF checks in some bulk actionsCVE-2024-3478 · fixed in 5.2.7 · reported by WPScanMedium 6.1
- Sep 11, 2023Herd Effects: Does not have CSRFCVE-2023-4318 · fixed in 5.2.4 · reported by WPScanMedium 4.3
- Sep 11, 2023Herd Effects: Does not sanitise and escape some of its settingsCVE-2023-4022 · fixed in 5.2.3 · reported by WPScanMedium 4.8
- May 20, 2022Authenticated (admin or higher user role) Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability in Wow-Company's Herd Effects plugin <= 5.2 at WordPress.CVE-2022-29448 · affects up to 5.2 · reported by Patchstack1.0% oddsMedium 6.8
Records come from the National Vulnerability Database, published by the researchers who found each flaw (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan and others); exploited status from CISA; exploit odds from FIRST’s EPSS; current version, installs and closures from wordpress.org, checked daily. Want every plugin on your site checked at once? Run the free website check.
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