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Security report for wikiedu.org

Wiki Education · Education · United States

Medium risk. 6 critical or high findings in Security headers, GDPR outside view and 1 other check.

Security score

53/100

Risk levelMedium

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

Wiki Education is a well-established non-profit organization founded in 2010 that focuses on engaging students, academics, and professionals to improve Wikipedia and other open knowledge platforms. The organization offers educational courses, partnerships, and consulting services aimed at enhancing the quality and reach of Wikipedia content. Their target audience includes college instructors, scholars, scientists, and institutions. The website reflects a strong market position as a leader in educational engagement with Wikipedia, supported by testimonials and clear organizational transparency. Technically, the website is built on WordPress with modern plugins and frameworks such as Jetpack and Pardot, hosted behind Cloudflare DNS services. The site demonstrates good mobile optimization, accessibility, and SEO practices, although performance is moderate. Security is robust with HTTPS enforced and domain transfer protections, but could be improved by enabling DNSSEC and adding security headers. Privacy policies are comprehensive and GDPR compliant, but the absence of a cookie consent mechanism is a minor gap. The security posture is solid with no visible vulnerabilities or exposed sensitive data. However, the lack of an explicit incident response or security policy page and missing security headers are areas for improvement. The WHOIS data shows privacy protection usage typical for non-profits, with a domain age consistent with the organization's history, supporting legitimacy. Overall, Wiki Education's website is professional, trustworthy, and secure, with minor recommendations to enhance privacy compliance and security hardening. The site is safe for general audiences and effectively supports the organization's mission to improve Wikipedia through academic collaboration.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
53/ 100 · Medium
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

6 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 Cookie Policy found

      GDPR requires clear information about cookie usage

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

    • High

      No Cookie Consent Banner found

      GDPR requires explicit consent for non-essential cookies

      What to do: Implement a cookie consent banner that appears on first visit

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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
62
Security headers
15
Email security
75
DNS health
75
Network security
40
GDPR outside view
53
Average
53

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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Total records
1
Employees
0
Customers
1
Third parties
0
Weak passwords
0%

1 subdomain 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

Wiki Education operates in the education sector as a non-profit organization focused on improving Wikipedia content through academic engagement. Their business model revolves around providing educational courses, partnerships, and consulting services to institutions and individuals. The organization benefits from a strong reputation and trust signals such as testimonials and transparent disclosures. Their target customers are educators, scholars, and institutions seeking to integrate Wikipedia into their curricula or sponsor content improvements. The website content and structure indicate a mature digital presence with ongoing content updates and community engagement. Partnerships and social media presence on Facebook and LinkedIn support their outreach and growth. The organization appears financially transparent with published financials and annual plans, reinforcing credibility.

Security posture

The website demonstrates a mature security posture with HTTPS enabled and domain transfer protections in place. No critical vulnerabilities or exposed sensitive data were detected in the HTML content. However, the absence of DNSSEC and security headers such as Content-Security-Policy and X-Frame-Options represents an opportunity to strengthen defenses against common web attacks. The lack of an explicit incident response or security policy page limits transparency on how security incidents are managed. Privacy policies are comprehensive and GDPR compliant, but the missing cookie consent mechanism is a compliance gap. Overall, the security maturity is good but can be enhanced by implementing recommended best practices and improving transparency.

Recommendations

  1. Enable DNSSEC on the domain to improve DNS security and prevent spoofing.
  2. Implement security headers including Content-Security-Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, and X-Frame-Options to mitigate common web vulnerabilities.
  3. Add a dedicated security or incident response policy page to increase transparency and preparedness.
  4. Introduce a cookie consent banner or mechanism to comply fully with GDPR and other privacy regulations.
  5. Regularly audit third-party plugins and scripts to ensure no vulnerable libraries are used and maintain up-to-date software.

Contact details published on the site

Addresses
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
Wiki Education
Description
Wiki Education engages students and academics to improve Wikipedia by involving students, scholars, scientists, archivists, librarians, and other members of academic and cultural institutions in sharing knowledge through Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other open collaboration projects.
Key services
Teach With Wikipedia courses, Wikipedia course sponsorship, Consulting expertise, Speaker series, Dashboard for course management
Content quality
excellent
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
WordPress 6.8.2, jQuery 3.7.1, MediaElement.js, Jetpack plugin, Pardot plugin, Cloudflare DNS
Frameworks
Bootstrap (implied by navbar classes), WordPress theme understrap
Platforms
WordPress CMS
Performance
moderate
Mobile
good
Accessibility
good
SEO
good

Security

Observed score
85/100
Good practices seen
  • HTTPS enforced
  • Domain status clientTransferProhibited and clientUpdateProhibited
  • No exposed sensitive data in HTML
  • No vulnerable libraries detected

Analytics and tracking

Services
Jetpack Stats
Tracking level
minimal
Privacy practices
basic

Advertising

Tracking pixels
Jetpack Stats (stats.wp.com)
Marketing tools
Pardot
Transparency
basic

Site quality

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

Key observations

  1. Website is a professionally maintained non-profit educational platform.
  2. Content is rich, relevant, and well-structured.
  3. No signs of malicious or suspicious activity.
  4. Security posture is good but can be improved with additional headers and DNSSEC.
  5. Privacy policies are present and comprehensive, but cookie consent is missing.
  6. No contact emails explicitly found in HTML; contact form and physical address provided.
  7. Social media presence on Facebook and LinkedIn confirmed.
Technical notes

Notes

The website is built on WordPress 6.8.2 with a child theme based on Understrap, leveraging jQuery and MediaElement.js for media handling. Jetpack and Pardot plugins are used for analytics and marketing automation. Hosting appears to be behind Cloudflare DNS services, providing performance and security benefits. The site is mobile-optimized with responsive design and accessibility features. Performance is moderate, likely due to media-rich content and plugin usage. SEO is well addressed with proper meta tags and Open Graph data. There is room for technical improvement by enabling DNSSEC and adding security headers. Overall, the technical infrastructure supports the organization's mission effectively with modern and maintainable technologies.
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

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