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Security report for athemes.com

aThemes · Technology · N/a

Medium risk. 8 critical or high findings in Security headers, GDPR outside view and 1 other check.

Security score

63/100

Risk levelMedium

0–100, higher is better. How it is calculated

aThemes is a well-established WordPress theme and plugin provider founded in 2011, offering a range of products focused on simplicity, ease of use, and clean design. The company targets WordPress users, small to medium businesses, and eCommerce store owners, with flagship products like Sydney, Botiga, Merchant, and aThemes Addons. The business operates under the parent company Awesome Motive, indicating a strong market position and backing. Technically, the website is built on WordPress with a modern tech stack including PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, and popular plugins such as Yoast SEO and MonsterInsights. The site is optimized for performance, mobile responsiveness, and SEO, leveraging Cloudflare DNS and Google Tag Manager for enhanced delivery and analytics. The infrastructure reflects a mature digital presence with good performance and user experience. From a security perspective, the site enforces HTTPS and uses security-related plugins, but lacks visible security headers and published security policies or incident response contacts. No vulnerabilities or exposed sensitive data were detected. Privacy compliance is basic, with no cookie policy or consent mechanism evident, which is an area for improvement. Overall, the website is professional, trustworthy, and well-positioned in its niche, but could enhance its privacy and security posture by implementing cookie consent, publishing security policies, and enabling DNSSEC. These steps would improve compliance and user trust while mitigating potential risks.

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NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
35/ 100 · High
Checks completed
7of 7

NIS2 Art. 21(2)

  1. (a) Risk analysis and security policies: Not visible from outside
  2. (b) Incident handling: One indicator
  3. (c) Business continuity, backups and crisis management: Not visible from outside
  4. (d) Supply chain security: Not visible from outside
  5. (e) Secure acquisition, development and maintenance, including vulnerability handling: Partly checked
  6. (f) Assessing the effectiveness of security measures: Not visible from outside
  7. (g) Cyber hygiene and security training: Not visible from outside
  8. (h) Cryptography and encryption: Partly checked
  9. (i) HR security, access control and asset management: One indicator
  10. (j) Multi-factor authentication and secured communications: Not visible from outside

This scan rated NIS2 with an earlier keyword method that is no longer shown; rescan for the per-article view. Risk management, continuity, supply chain, training, MFA, management oversight (Art. 20) and incident reporting (Art. 23) need internal evidence, and Guard cannot tell whether NIS2 applies to this organisation.

GDPR is indicative only, based on publicly visible signals: Articles 7, 12, 13 and 32 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive. Not a certification or legal assessment.

Priority findings

8 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.

  1. Security headers

    Security headers are instructions your web server sends to every visitor’s browser. Missing ones leave visitors more exposed to attacks such as clickjacking and injected scripts.

    • High

      Missing Strict-Transport-Security header

      Forces HTTPS connections

      What to do: Add "Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload"

      • CWE-319
      • OWASP A04:2025
      • ASVS V3.4.1
    • High

      Missing X-Frame-Options header

      Prevents clickjacking attacks

      What to do: Add "X-Frame-Options: DENY" or "X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN"

    • High

      Missing Content-Security-Policy header

      Controls resources the browser is allowed to load

      What to do: Implement a Content-Security-Policy appropriate for your application

      • ASVS V3.4.3
      • OWASP Secure Headers: OWASP Secure Headers Project recommends Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; form-action 'self'; base-uri 'self'; object-src 'none';…
  2. GDPR outside view

    These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.

    • High

      No Privacy Policy found

      GDPR requires a clear and accessible privacy policy

      What to do: Add a comprehensive privacy policy page and link to it prominently

    • High

      No Cookie Policy found

      GDPR requires clear information about cookie usage

      What to do: Add a dedicated cookie policy explaining cookie usage and purposes

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  • Security score drift

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Results by check

Each check with its score, findings and the evidence it collected.

How this score is calculated

The security score runs 0–100, higher is better. It is the plain average of the security checks that completed in this scan, each counted equally. A check that could not run is left out: it counts neither as a pass nor as a fail.

Counted in this score

SSL/TLS
75
Security headers
15
Email security
75
DNS health
80
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
35
Average
63

Not counted

  • NIS2 outside view: Re-weights evidence from the TLS, email, DNS, network and hygiene checks, so counting it would count that evidence twice. Shown on its own.
  • OffSeq Observations: An AI reading of the site, useful context but not reproducible evidence. Shown on its own.

Findings that cap the score at 49

Each of these is serious on its own, so while any is present the site cannot rate better than high risk, however good the other checks are.

  • The certificate is not trusted by browsers
  • The website is not served over HTTPS
  • A database, remote desktop, file-sharing or Telnet service is reachable from the internet
  • The page loads a script from a compromised source
  • The domain registration has expired
  • SPF authorises every server to send mail as the domain

Partial scans

When the site blocks Guard or most checks cannot run, the score covers only the checks that ran (usually DNS and email), is capped at 75 and is shown as partial, without a risk level.

Risk levels

  • Critical0–25
  • High26–49
  • Medium50–75
  • Low76–100

Breach exposure

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Dark web exposure

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Leaked records that mention athemes.com, from OffSeq Breach.

Total records
2,150
Employees
0
Customers
2,115
Third parties
35
Weak passwords
14%

4 subdomains affected

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Technical appendix

Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.

Business context

Business profile

aThemes holds a strong position in the WordPress themes and plugins market, leveraging a freemium business model with both free and premium offerings. Their competitive advantages include a focus on simplicity, speed, and clean design, backed by excellent customer support and positive user reviews. Revenue streams likely include theme and plugin sales, subscriptions, and affiliate marketing. The target customers are WordPress users ranging from beginners to professionals, including eCommerce store owners. The company benefits from being part of the Awesome Motive family, which provides strategic partnerships and resources. Growth indicators include over 130,000 active users and millions of downloads, supported by a robust content marketing strategy with tutorials and blog posts.

Security posture

The security maturity level of aThemes is moderate to good. HTTPS is enforced, and security plugins are in use, which helps protect against common threats. However, the absence of security headers such as Content-Security-Policy and Strict-Transport-Security reduces the overall security hardening. There is no publicly available security policy or incident response contact, which limits transparency and readiness for security incidents. Privacy compliance is minimal, lacking cookie consent mechanisms and detailed privacy disclosures. No vulnerabilities or exposed sensitive data were found, indicating good operational security practices. To improve, aThemes should implement security headers, publish security and privacy policies, and establish clear incident response channels.

Recommendations

  1. Implement a comprehensive cookie policy and consent mechanism to comply with GDPR and enhance user privacy.
  2. Publish a detailed security policy and provide incident response contact information to improve transparency and readiness.
  3. Enable DNSSEC on the domain to strengthen DNS security and prevent spoofing.
  4. Add security headers such as Content-Security-Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, and Strict-Transport-Security to harden the website against common attacks.
  5. Regularly audit third-party scripts and plugins to ensure no vulnerable libraries are in use and maintain secure coding practices.
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
aThemes
Description
We create awesome WordPress themes and plugins. Our products focus on simplicity (no bloat here!), ease of use, and clean design.
Key services
WordPress themes (Sydney, Botiga), WooCommerce themes and plugins (Botiga, Merchant), Addons for Elementor, Support and tutorials
Content quality
excellent
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Cloudflare DNS, Easy Digital Downloads plugin, MonsterInsights Analytics plugin, Yoast SEO plugin
Frameworks
Elementor (via addons), Glide.js (carousel), Yoast SEO
Platforms
WordPress CMS
Performance
fast
Mobile
excellent
Accessibility
good
SEO
excellent

Security

Observed score
85/100
Good practices seen
  • HTTPS enforced
  • No exposed sensitive data in HTML
  • Use of security plugins (honeypot, am-site-security)
  • No visible vulnerable libraries

Analytics and tracking

Services
Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, MonsterInsights
Tracking level
extensive
Privacy practices
basic

Advertising

Tracking pixels
Microsoft Clarity, Google Ads (AW-938485211), MonsterInsights
Marketing tools
Drip email marketing
Transparency
good

Site quality

Design
excellent
User experience
excellent
Content relevance
excellent
Navigation
excellent
Professionalism
excellent
Trustworthiness
high

Key observations

  1. Website is professionally designed and well maintained
  2. Strong focus on WordPress themes and plugins with clear product offerings
  3. Good user engagement with testimonials and Trustpilot reviews
  4. Extensive use of analytics and marketing tools
  5. No visible security or privacy policy disclosures beyond terms of service
  6. No direct contact emails or phone numbers publicly displayed
  7. No cookie consent mechanism detected
  8. Domain registration and technical setup are consistent and legitimate
Technical notes

Notes

The website is built on a solid WordPress infrastructure with a modern technology stack including PHP, JavaScript, and jQuery. It uses popular plugins for SEO (Yoast), analytics (MonsterInsights, Google Analytics), and marketing (Drip). The site leverages Cloudflare for DNS and CDN services, enhancing performance and security. Performance is optimized with lazy loading and deferred script loading. The site is mobile responsive and accessible, with good SEO metadata and structured data (JSON-LD). Technical risks are low, but the absence of DNSSEC and security headers presents opportunities for improvement. Overall, the technical implementation supports a fast, reliable, and user-friendly website experience.
Standards and sources

Reference chips under each finding point to the standard, regulation or specification the finding relates to. They are taken from the official datasets below and mapped conservatively: a finding with no defensible link shows none. NIS2 and GDPR references mark where a finding is relevant evidence, not a compliance verdict. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2690 binds digital infrastructure and digital service providers; for other entities it is the most detailed public reading of the Article 21 measures. WCAG, EN 301 549, European Accessibility Act and Web Accessibility Directive references name the requirement an automated accessibility rule relates to; they are not a conformance verdict.

Retrieved 2026-10-25

Earlier scans of this domain

  1. 63/100Medium31 findingsView report
  2. 63/100Medium31 findingsView report
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