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ThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin v3.12.0

🔗 Affiliate link management & cloaker tool. Easily manage, shrink and track your affiliate links in WordPress. 🔥

  • Commercial

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  • Audit coverage Up to date 30 versions audited
  • On Plugin Auditor since Sep 9, 2026
  • Last audited Sep 9, 2026

Compatibility & requirements

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

  • Requires PHP 7.4+
  • Requires WordPress 6.0+
  • Tested up to WP 7.1 WP 7.1.3 is current
  • Version adoption 48% run the current version

Audit scores by category

125 checks

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

  • 67 Passed
  • 39 Warnings
  • 19 Failed
Security 43/100
Poor

16 of 37 checks passed.

Code Quality 64/100
Needs Improvement

39 of 61 checks passed.

Performance 42/100
Poor

5 of 12 checks passed.

Compatibility 67/100
Needs Improvement

4 of 6 checks passed.

Privacy 67/100
Needs Improvement

2 of 3 checks passed.

Accessibility 17/100
Poor

1 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

4.6 MB

7.8 MB unzipped

Total files

387

across all file types

Lines of PHP

27,317

in 164 files Large

File types

  • PHP
  • JS
  • PNG
  • CSS
  • Other

Top issues

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

  • 7 Critical
  • 370 High
  • 294 Medium
  • 186 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 ThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin, Accessibility improved the most (+17). The largest regression was in Privacy (-33). The codebase grew 109% in size.

Audited 3.10.4 → 3.12.0 · 30 versions

0 50 100 3.10.4 3.10.14 3.11.2 3.12.0

How issues changed across versions

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

0 455 910 3.10.4 3.10.14 3.11.2 3.12.0

Download momentum

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

Last 7 days

703

downloads

Today

111

downloads

Week over week

−26%

vs previous week

Month over month

−11%

vs previous month

Download trend: Declining. Abandonment risk: Low.

Version intelligence

52% of installs run an older version

≈ 15.7K+ sites on a lower-scoring version.

  • Other
  • v3.10
  • v3.11
  • v3.12

Ratings

251 ratings on WordPress.org

  • 5 217
  • 4 12
  • 3 2
  • 2 2
  • 1 18

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

May 27, 2026

Actively maintained

Release cadence

~ every 29 days

average between releases

Total releases

66

since Oct 2017 · 9 yrs

Contributors & developers

The people credited with building and maintaining this plugin.

Running ThirstyAffiliates in Your Site?

Our latest audit of ThirstyAffiliates v3.12.0 flagged 857 issues. Scan your own copy to see each one with its exact file, line number, and a recommended fix.

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