SiteCare – Vulnerability Scanner is a WordPress app, with a 5.0 average rating from 2 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
SiteCare – Vulnerability Scanner is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by SiteCare. With a rating of 5.0★ from 2 reviews.
AppRanks verdict
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SiteCare – Vulnerability Scanner is a category-leading WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 2 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (5.0★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by SiteCare — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (2) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How SiteCare – Vulnerability Scanner works
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Most compromised WordPress sites aren’t hit by some clever, brand-new exploit – they’re breached through a known vulnerability in an outdated plugin or theme that nobody noticed in time. The fix is almost always as simple as running an update. The hard part is knowing there’s a problem at all.
SiteCare Vulnerability Scanner watches that blind spot for you. It checks your installed plugins, themes, and WordPress core against a continuously updated database of publicly known vulnerabilities, then tells you in plain language – right in your dashboard – what is affected and what to do about it.
Automatic daily monitoring in the background – plus an instant re-scan whenever you install, update or activate a plugin or theme.
Email alerts the moment a new vulnerability appears, so you find out without having to be logged in.
Clear severity ratings (CVSS) and CVE references, with the most urgent components listed first.
One-click updates right from the results whenever a fix is available.
Security score A-F (0-100) that grades your whole site at a glance, with a trend against your previous scan.
Abandoned & removed plugin detection – warns you when an installed plugin has been closed on WordPress.org or has had no update for years.
Slack / Discord alerts via webhook, and a WP-CLI command (wp vulnerability scan) with a CI-friendly exit code.
Shown where you already look – a dashboard widget and a WordPress Site Health check.
Your site’s data never leaves your server. The plugin only reads public vulnerability information through the WP Vulnerability API – no account, no external tracking, and no noticeable impact on performance.
Key Features
Accurate version-range detection against a continuously updated vulnerability database
Automatic background scans (daily, configurable) with instant re-checks after site changes
Email alerts for newly discovered vulnerabilities – only new ones, never repeated
Severity ratings (CVSS), CVE references and “fixed in” versions
One-click updates for affected plugins, themes and WordPress core
Dashboard widget and WordPress Site Health integration
Security score (A-F / 0-100) with a trend against the previous scan
Detection of abandoned and removed (closed) plugins via the WordPress.org API
Slack and Discord notifications through a webhook URL
WP-CLI command (wp vulnerability scan / status) with a CI-friendly exit code
Ships fully translated into five world languages – German, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian – plus Czech.
Read-only: only component slugs and versions are sent; no data leaves your site
Support development via Buy Me a Coffee
License This plugin is distributed under the GNU General Public License v2.0 or later. See the license.txt file for details.
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Frequently asked questions
What is SiteCare – Vulnerability Scanner?
SiteCare – Vulnerability Scanner is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 5.0-star rating from 2 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by SiteCare.