Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security | Endigest
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EmDash is an open-source TypeScript CMS and spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security through isolated sandboxes.
- •Built on Astro, fully serverless, MIT licensed, deployable to Cloudflare or any Node.js server
- •WordPress plugins cause 96% of site vulnerabilities; in 2025 high-severity issues exceeded the prior two years combined
- •Each EmDash plugin runs in an isolated Dynamic Worker and must declare required capabilities (e.g., read:content, email:send) in its manifest upfront
- •Plugins have no default DB, filesystem, or network access beyond what is explicitly declared, similar to OAuth scopes
- •The sandbox model removes GPL licensing constraints on plugins and reduces reliance on centralized marketplace vetting
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