I saw this post today on Reddit and was curious to see if views are similar here as they are there.
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Silly question how safe are caddy plugins? (especially dns challenge modules like cloudflare, duckdns, etc).
https://github.com/caddy-dns https://github.com/caddy-dns/cloudflare/tree/master
Not sure if those plugins are covered by caddy’s security disclosure policy
https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/security
I maintain the DNS plugin for Vultr and I can say that it’s “safe”, but if you’re worried you should check their source code.
I believe it’s easier to have a vulnerability in the external provider’s API (for example, caddy-dns/vultr uses govultr) than Caddy. But I wouldn’t take things for granted if I was skeptical about these plugins.