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wp2shell

Last updated 2026-07-21 · benchmark measured 2026-08-09 — deterministic & reproducible

Tool to check if your WordPress site is vulnerable to a pre-auth RCE bug.

Is wp2shell production-ready?

Legit.Show scores wp2shell 70 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on wp2shell (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Performance; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 99/100
• Accessibility — 95/100
• Security — 25/100
• Privacy — 25/100
• Reliability — 92/100
• Standards — 92/100
• Discoverability — 62/100

What we measured

• No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 114 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
• Discoverable: canonical URL.

Who built it

@hash_kitten · product account @assetnote

Who it's for

WordPress site owners · System administrators · Security professionals

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