Best sanitize plugins for WordPress
The most popular sanitize plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Clean Image Filenames leads with 30K+ active installs, ahead of Filenames to latin (8K+) and Clean Filenames (3K+). All 19 plugins tagged “sanitize” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 sanitize plugins
- 1.
Clean Image FilenamesThe most installed sanitize plugin, with 30K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 21 reviews, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 2.Filenames to latin
8K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 14 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
- 3.Clean Filenames
3K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 8 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 4.
Upload SVG1K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 5.
BEA1K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 7 months ago.
- 6.
WP Sanitize Accented Uploads800+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 7.MD5 Media Renamer
400+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.1.
- 8.Healthy filenames
100+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
- 9.Space Remover
100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 10.LS Sanitize Greek Filename
70+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
All 19 plugins tagged “sanitize”

Clean Image Filenames
Down in the last 7 days:4#974by Upperdog9 months ago
This plugin automatically converts language accent characters to non-accent characters in filenames when uploading to the media library.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.6(21)
- Downloads
- 239/day
Filenames to latin
Down in the last 7 days:6#2,301by webvitalii6 years ago
Sanitize filenames to latin during upload.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.9(14)
- Downloads
- 31/day
Clean Filenames
Down in the last 7 days:6#4,183by Samuel Aguilera1 year ago
Removes or replace international or special characters that can make your filenames not compliant with some servers or services.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.6(8)
- Downloads
- 14/day

Upload SVG
Down in the last 7 days:18#5,431by html5maps18 days ago
Safely enable SVG uploads with sanitization and prevent XML/SVG vulnerabilities on your WordPress website. Preview SVG files in your Media Library.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 34/day

BEA
Up in the last 7 days:4#6,126by BE API7 months ago
Remove all punctuation and accents from the filename of uploaded files.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 22/day

WP Sanitize Accented Uploads
Up in the last 7 days:22#7,511by Onni Hakala10 years ago
Simple plugin which removes accented characters from uploaded files.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 40/day
MD5 Media Renamer
#9,767by neoslab13 years ago
Sanitize and rename automatically media files during upload using PHP time() as prefix and the file name encrypted in MD5() as suffix.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Healthy filenames
Down in the last 7 days:29#13,102by Kantari Samy1 month ago
Automatically clean the filenames.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Space Remover
Down in the last 7 days:93#16,592by mgwe10 years ago
Space Remover removes any leading or trailing spaces from your post and page content. Securing a clean and consistent website layout.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
LS Sanitize Greek Filename
Down in the last 7 days:63#18,191by lenasterg1 year ago
Automatically replaces Greek characters in filename with their corresponding Latin equivalents during file uploads.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Aucor URL Sanitizer
Down in the last 7 days:12#19,915by Generaxion7 years ago
Converts Cyrillic, Georgian, Arabic and Chinese characters in post, term slugs and media file names to Latin characters.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Content Cleaner
Down in the last 7 days:90#23,275by colin34409 years ago
Automatically removes non-printable characters, including the ETX character, from content, title, and Advanced Custom fields.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Support SVG
Down in the last 7 days:168#24,923by Sayedul Sayem9 months ago
This plugin will help you to upload svg format image in WordPress media library regardless of the theme. That is, it works with every theme.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Strings Sanitizer
Down in the last 7 days:555#27,129by Prospek Creation14 years ago
Aggressively sanitizes titles for clean, SEO friendly post slugs, and media filenames during upload.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Clean Media Library File Names
Up in the last 7 days:730#28,373by webdeveric11 years ago
This plugin cleans uploaded file names to remove special characters and spaces.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
The Definitive URL Sanitizer
Up in the last 7 days:63#31,917by dmnet14 years ago
The Definitive URL Sanitizer is a simple plugin that really sanitizes posts URL
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hebrew username
Up in the last 7 days:1,359#33,064by DrMosko11 years ago
Add Hebrew characters to sanitize_user
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
CodePros SVG Secure Support
Up in the last 7 days:7,882#52,121by codeprosai4 months ago
Highly secure SVG upload support for WordPress. Validates, sanitizes, and protects SVG files through a multi-layer security pipeline.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Sanitize DB
Down in the last 7 days:3,541#62,907by anku19914 years ago
The plugin sanitizes the database by removing the unused meta entries and other unlinked records from the database. It removes unused data one by one …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day