wordpress-security

A set of WordPress coding rules for handling user input, displaying data, checking permissions, and running database queries safely.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or reviewing WordPress plugins that accept input, show dynamic content, check logged-in users, or access the database.
Why use it?
It helps prevent common website vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting, request forgery, and SQL injection by applying the appropriate safety checks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the wp-dev plugin — 14 skills, 8 commands, 4 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iwritec0de/wp-dev/wordpress-security
Any agent
npx skills add iwritec0de/wp-dev --skill wordpress-security
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iwritec0de/wp-dev

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install wp-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 8 commands, 4 agents, 3 hooks.

Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,761 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00115 $0.01761
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00881
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00352
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00176

Measured 2d ago against content hash c646f309bd09, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wordpress-security scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/wordpress-security/SKILL.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

WordPress Security Best Practices

This skill covers WordPress security patterns including output escaping, input sanitization, nonce verification, capability checks, and secure database queries.

Output Escaping

Every piece of dynamic data rendered in HTML must be escaped. Choose the function matching the output context:

Context Function Example
HTML body esc_html() <p><?php echo esc_html( $name ); ?></p>
HTML attribute esc_attr() <input value="<?php echo esc_attr( $val ); ?>">
URL/href esc_url() <a href="<?php echo esc_url( $link ); ?>">
Textarea content esc_textarea() <textarea><?php echo esc_textarea( $text ); ?></textarea>
Inline JS value esc_js() onclick="alert('<?php echo esc_js( $msg ); ?>')"
Rich HTML (post content) wp_kses_post() <?php echo wp_kses_post( $content ); ?>
Custom allowed HTML wp_kses() echo wp_kses( $html, $allowed_tags );

Translation + escaping combos:

  • esc_html__() / esc_html_e() — translatable escaped strings
  • esc_attr__() / esc_attr_e() — translatable escaped attributes
  • wp_kses_post() on __() output for rich translated content

Input Sanitization

Sanitize all user input immediately upon receipt, before storage or processing:

Data Type Function
Plain text sanitize_text_field( wp_unslash( $_POST['field'] ) )
Textarea sanitize_textarea_field( wp_unslash( $_POST['field'] ) )
Email sanitize_email( $_POST['email'] )
Integer absint( $_POST['id'] ) or intval( $_POST['num'] )
Filename sanitize_file_name( $_FILES['file']['name'] )
HTML class sanitize_html_class( $_POST['class'] )
Key/slug sanitize_key( $_POST['key'] )
Title/slug sanitize_title( $_POST['title'] )
URL esc_url_raw( $_POST['url'] ) (for storage — use esc_url() for display)

Always wp_unslash() superglobals before sanitizing — WordPress adds slashes to $_GET, $_POST, $_REQUEST.

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 214 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A c646f309bd09

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wordpress-security is a skill published in the GitHub repository iwritec0de/wp-dev (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 1,761 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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