[wp-hackers] How to check a new plugin?

[Azizur Rahman]

My simple method of evaluation of any plugin is to see the related forum
post(s). This will give you immediate information if its working or mostly
not working for others.

Following from that you can do what Peter mention "read every line of code"
and run it in some kind of realistic environment to production.

Kind Regards,
Azizur Rahman

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On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Patrick Laverty
<patrick_laverty at brown.edu>wrote:

> When you want to add a new plugin to your system, what do you do to check
> it
> out for it's safety and security on your blog?  I'm in charge of a ms
> instance at a University and I get requests for plugins all the time,
> especially for ones that are on version <1 or admit they're "alpha" or
> "beta" versions.  I don't want to simply reject something because of it's
> label, but I'm not totally sure how to evaluate a new plugin.  Do any of
> you
> put them on a test server and then point a vulnerability scanner at the new
> plugin to see what happens?  Advice?
>
> Thanks.
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