Title: plugin review and security
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# plugin review and security

 *  [THX 1138](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thx-1138-1139/)
 * (@thx-1138-1139)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-review-and-security/)
 * I certainly hope I am posting this in the correct forum area, but I have a question;
   is the code of submitted plugins reviewed before they are approved to be hosted
   on this site?
    I understand about the consequences of depending too heavily on
   plugins, and therefore, try to keep installs to a minimum, but since I saw a 
   plugin today which i thought would be ideal for one of my sites, it’s called “
   finboo search widget”, I downloaded it, unpacked it and uploaded it to my server,
   but before activating it, I realized I forgot a critical step…googling the domain
   of the developer. In this case, the FindBoo.com website seemed to be keyword 
   stuffed and highly suspicious, I dunno exactly why, but it immediately gave me
   the creeps, I thank goodness that I didn’t activate the plugin and run the script.
   While I’m here, I still think the concept of Findboo in the description (except
   for the gaming part) is really neat, does anyone know of a similar plugin?

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