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Brave – Create Popup, Optins, Lead Generation, Survey, Sticky Elements & Interactive Content v0.8.8

Brave Popup Builder is the most powerful WordPress popup plugin for creating popups, lead generation forms, sitckybars, sidebars in minutes and converting your visitors like there’s no tomorrow....

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  • On Plugin Auditor since Sep 11, 2026
  • Last audited Sep 11, 2026

Compatibility & requirements

The PHP and WordPress versions this plugin needs, and how current its version support is.

  • Requires PHP 7.2.24+
  • Requires WordPress 5.2+
  • Tested up to WP 7.0.2 WP 7.1.3 is current
  • Version adoption 69% run the current version

Audit scores by category

125 checks

How this plugin scores across the six areas we audit, from security to accessibility.

  • 73 Passed
  • 44 Warnings
  • 8 Failed
Security 62/100
Needs Improvement

23 of 37 checks passed.

Code Quality 64/100
Needs Improvement

39 of 61 checks passed.

Performance 33/100
Poor

4 of 12 checks passed.

Compatibility 67/100
Needs Improvement

4 of 6 checks passed.

Privacy 33/100
Poor

1 of 3 checks passed.

Accessibility 33/100
Poor

2 of 6 checks passed.

Code footprint

How much code ships in this plugin, and the file types that make it up.

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ZIP file size

2.0 MB

5.8 MB unzipped

Total files

154

across all file types

Lines of PHP

13,420

in 86 files Medium

File types

  • PHP
  • PNG
  • CSS
  • JS
  • Other

Top issues

The most important findings from the latest audit, ordered by severity.

  • 11 Critical
  • 76 High
  • 397 Medium
  • 266 Low

This is a preview of notable findings. Full file-level results, line numbers and code context are in the scan.

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How scores changed across versions

Across 30 audited versions of Brave – Create Popup, Optins, Lead Generation, Survey, Sticky Elements & Interactive Content, Code Quality improved the most (+3). No category regressed over this span. The codebase grew 11% in size.

Audited 0.5.6 → 0.8.7 · 30 versions

0 50 100 0.5.6 0.6.6 0.7.6 0.8.7

How issues changed across versions

Findings by severity for each audited version, so you can see which issues were fixed over time.

0 445 890 0.5.6 0.6.6 0.7.6 0.8.7

Download momentum

How fast this plugin is being installed lately, and whether that pace is rising or slowing.

Last 7 days

1,255

downloads

Today

180

downloads

Week over week

−52%

vs previous week

Month over month

+12%

vs previous month

Download trend: Growing. Abandonment risk: None.

Version intelligence

31% of installs run an older version

≈ 6.2K+ sites on a lower-scoring version.

  • Other
  • v0.6
  • v0.7
  • v0.8

Ratings

209 ratings on WordPress.org

  • 5 193
  • 4 7
  • 3 1
  • 2 1
  • 1 7

Support: 1 / 1 threads resolved in the last two months

Maintenance & history

How actively this plugin is kept up, from its last update to its release history.

Last updated

This month

Aug 6, 2026

Actively maintained

Release cadence

~ every 16 days

average between releases

Total releases

81

since Dec 2019 · 7 yrs

Contributors & developers

The people credited with building and maintaining this plugin.

Running Brave in Your Site?

Our latest audit of Brave v0.8.8 flagged 750 issues. Scan your own copy to see each one with its exact file, line number, and a recommended fix.

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