WordPress plugin · optinmonster
Is Popup Builder & Popup Maker for WordPress safe?
Safe on 2.17.1 or newer.
The current version, 2.17.1, is past every affected range on record (6 of 6 records list one). Keep it updated and you’re clear of them.
- Flaws on record
- 6
- High or critical
- 1
- Exploited
- none
- Current version
- 2.17.1
- Last updated
- Aug 14, 2026
- Active installs
- 1,000,000+
Every recorded flaw
- May 25, 2024Popup Builder by OptinMonster – WordPress Popups for Optins, Email Newsletters and Lead Generation: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2024-4045 · affects up to 2.16.1 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Apr 26, 2024OptinMonster: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)CVE-2024-33691 · affects up to 2.15.3 · reported by PatchstackMedium 4.3
- Mar 13, 2023Popup Builder by OptinMonster: Does not ensure that the campaign to be loaded via some shortcodes is actually a campaignCVE-2023-0772 · fixed in 2.12.2 · reported by WPScanMedium 6.5
- Nov 1, 2021OptinMonster: Sensitive information disclosure and unauthorized setting updatesCVE-2021-39341 · affects up to 2.6.4 · reported by Wordfence22% oddsHigh 8.2
- Sep 20, 2021OptinMonster: Reflected Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2021-39325 · affects up to 2.6.0 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.1
- Sep 20, 2019The optinmonster plugin before 1.1.4.6 for WordPress has incorrect access control for shortcodes because of a nonce leak.CVE-2016-10996 · fixed in 1.1.4.6 · reported by MITRE1.1% oddsMedium 5.3
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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