Website reputation report

wsws.org

Last checked 1 day ago · Point-in-time assessment

● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

Marxist analysis, international working class struggles & the fight for socialism

No listed local patterns observedHomepage-only analysis is not a malware clearance. Read the scope and findings below.

69/100Safety Score
75%Evidence Confidence
Trust Radar evidence profile Eight evidence dimensions from zero to one hundred. Exact values surround the chart. Threat Intelligence55 Domain History95 Infrastructure89 Website Security80 Security Hygiene45 Transparency52 Reputation50 Operational Stability84
Trust RadarEight observed factors. Select one to inspect its evidence.

How to read this report

Safety Score evaluates observed signals. Evidence Confidence measures how complete, direct, fresh, and consistent those signals are.

No automated scan can guarantee that a website is safe.

Independent evidence brief

What we observed about wsws.org

Updated Oct 1, 2026

The latest scan examined 10 public pages on wsws.org. Website descriptions below come from the site itself. Registration, connection and threat findings were checked separately.

Purpose and visible content

On its homepage, the site says: Marxist analysis, international working class struggles & the fight for socialism

Registrar and domain history

Registered on Jan 22, 1998. Registrar: Network Solutions, LLC.

Recorded expiry date: Jan 21, 2029. Registry data can change.

Connection and hosting evidence

The checked homepage returned HTTP 200 in about 2000 ms.

A valid TLS certificate was observed, expiring Dec 7, 2026.

Threat checks and score context

External malware-provider coverage was unavailable. The report does not treat this missing check as a clean result.

Safety Score: 69/100. Evidence Confidence: 75%. These measure different things.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on wsws.org

10 of up to 10 pages

We sampled public pages from this website to understand its subject and contact paths. The titles and short descriptions below come from the website itself. They are not endorsements or independent safety findings.

World Socialist Web Site - Marxist analysis, international working class struggles & the fight for socialismMarxist analysis, international working class struggles & the fight for socialism About the WSWShttps://www.wsws.org/en/special/pages/icfi/wsws.html About the ICFIhttps://www.wsws.org/en/special/pages/icfi/about.html About the IYSSEhttps://www.wsws.org/en/special/pages/iysse/about.html <em>Fatherland</em>: A moving film about Thomas Mann’s trip to Germany in 1949 - World Socialist Web SiteIn 1949, Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter, the actress, author, and cabaret artist Erika (Sandra Hüller), set out on a journey from Frankfurt am Main in the American o IG Metall union ties pay to company profits, preparing new cuts for autoworkers in Germany - World Socialist Web SiteBy linking wage rises to individual firms' profit margins, IG Metall is setting up deeper cuts in real wages for workers in the crisis-hit auto and machine-building sectors, while Former Montgomery, Alabama teacher testifies about the forced reopening of schools in 2020-21 - World Socialist Web SiteIn this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She a Michigan hospital worker with Long COVID speaks about the destruction of health care in the US - World Socialist Web SiteA health care worker in Michigan spoke to the WSWS about his own health and the impact of Long COVID on his ability to work and the way the condition is being dismissed by the heal Alberta nurse speaks about union indifference to mass illness and death - World Socialist Web SiteIn this interview for the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic, Alberta nurse Kerry speaks on her experience with Long COVID and the unions’ complicity in enforcing t 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones was paid over $1 million to speak about race at colleges in 2022 - World Socialist Web SiteThe race-obsessed middle class layers which Hannah-Jones epitomizes are fundamentally fearful of and hostile to the growing movement of the working class. The last thing they want

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on wsws.org

5 phrases

These phrases were extracted locally from sampled public page metadata. They are observations, not search-volume or ranking estimates.

world socialist webTitle7 sampled pages
readH16 sampled pages
long covidTitle, Meta description2 sampled pages
working classTitle, Meta description2 sampled pages
speaksTitle, Meta description2 sampled pages

At a glance

Key findings

✓

Report is current

The displayed evidence comes from the published immutable scan.

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Confidence is separate

Unavailable evidence is shown as missing and never counted as clean.

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Fully explainable

Why this score?

Versioned weights
Threat IntelligenceWeight 25%
55/100

Threat providers were unavailable. The neutral uncertainty baseline is not a clean verdict.

Domain HistoryWeight 10%
95/100

Domain registration age and expiry were checked.

InfrastructureWeight 10%
89/100

Observed DNS records and network address were checked.

Website SecurityWeight 15%
80/100

Observed certificate validity and TLS protocol were checked.

Security HygieneWeight 15%
45/100

Observed security header values were checked for basic protective settings. Empty values, disabled HSTS and unrecognized values receive no credit. This is not a complete browser-policy validation.

TransparencyWeight 5%
52/100

Observed site metadata and About page were checked. Publisher-supplied details are not independently verified.

ReputationWeight 5%
50/100

Popularity is weak context, not proof of safety. Unranked sites use a neutral baseline.

Operational StabilityWeight 15%
84/100

Observed HTTP status and final connection scheme were checked.

Server-side analysis

Automated security checks

Local antivirus and phishing checks

ClamAV · homepage HTMLLocal antivirus is not enabled
Phishing.Database · exact hostnameLocal feed snapshot unavailable

Sampled scripts and pages

Resource antivirus is not enabled

0 resources checked · 24 script links observed on the homepage. Partial resource coverage.

ClamAV inspects the fetched homepage HTML on our server. New scans also sample up to four linked scripts and two collected internal pages, with size and time limits. Scripts are not executed. Other downloads, private server files and logged-in pages remain outside this check. A signature match needs investigation and can be a false positive. No match is not a whole-site safety guarantee.

Exact hostname lookup uses a downloaded Phishing.Database snapshot. It does not send this domain to an external lookup API or mark sibling subdomains as harmful. Not listed does not mean safe. Snapshot age is download age, not proof that every entry was recently revalidated.

Homepage HTML only · Eight local rule families · local-security-v2

Checks use the fetched page and redirect chain. Scripts are not executed, forms are not submitted, and linked files are not downloaded. This is not a malware clearance.

Page resource inventory

Linked scripts24
Inline scripts5
Embedded frames0
External script hosts1

Counts describe the sampled HTML, not every resource loaded by the browser. External resources are common and are not automatically harmful.

Partial analysis. Only the first 512 KiB of the page were inspected.

No listed local patterns observed. The limited rule set cannot detect every threat or behavior.

External threat intelligence

Provider coverageNot checked

Local checks do not query external reputation databases. An unavailable check is never a clean result.

Registration

Domain information

Public RDAP observation
Canonical domainwsws.org
RegistrarNetwork Solutions, LLC
RegisteredJan 22, 1998
Domain age28 years
ExpiresJan 21, 2029
Registry statusesclient transfer prohibited
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address128.199.15.20
Autonomous systemUnavailable
Network organizationUnavailable
Observed countryUnavailable
CDNNot detected
Web application firewallNot detected

At a glance

Infrastructure summary

Observed during this scan

A compact view of the connection, DNS and security surface. These observations describe what the scanner could verify at scan time and do not prove ownership or ongoing availability.

HTTP response200 · https://www.wsws.org/en?redirect=true
Endpoint128.199.15.20
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFNot detected · Not detected
DNS surface10 records · 4 nameservers · 1 mail exchangers
Protection signals1 security headers · 5 technologies · DNSSEC unknown

Page telemetry

Observed page statistics

Safe metadata only

These counters describe the fetched response and sampled HTML. Script counts describe references in the markup, not a complete browser network log. Cookie counts cover observed response headers.

Response size2,141,818 bytes
HTTP check duration2,000 ms
Cookies observedUnavailable
Script resources24 · 1 external hosts
Frames and sampled checks0 frames · 0 resources checked

Encrypted transport

TLS certificate

Valid when observed
StatusValid when observed
ProtocolTLSv1.2
IssuercountryName=US, organizationName=Let's Encrypt, commonName=YE2
Valid fromSep 8, 2026
Valid untilDec 7, 2026
Certificate nameswsws.org · www.wsws.org · www12.wsws.org · www14.wsws.org · www16.wsws.org · www18.wsws.org · www6.wsws.org · www7.wsws.org · www8.wsws.org · www9.wsws.org

Resolution

DNS footprint

DNSKEY status unknown

DNSKEY presence does not verify the DNSSEC signature chain. Missing records can mean no record was returned or the lookup was unavailable.

A128.199.15.20TTL —
NSns1.p201.dns.oraclecloud.netTTL —
NSns2.p201.dns.oraclecloud.netTTL —
NSns3.p201.dns.oraclecloud.netTTL —
NSns4.p201.dns.oraclecloud.netTTL —
MX10 mail.wsws.orgTTL —
TXTahrefs-site-verification_ae1be7fe79ee6d186359362bd988d03181c2c9209899d42f0aa8a2407d20f22cTTL —
TXTdetectify-verification=39cdff8237be04b04c1b17b1eb753108TTL —
TXTfacebook-domain-verification=0j2ao2jw0cqxanavrpv9c901lmvq4vTTL —
TXTv=spf1 ip4:144.76.84.122 ip4:149.72.230.204 ip4:159.183.141.3 ip4:168.245.14.213 -allTTL —

DNS observations · no external lookup API

Domain email protection

Exact-host SPF and DMARC observations help the owner investigate email impersonation risks. They are separate from website malware checks and do not change the Safety Score.

SPFPolicy record observed, not fully validated
DMARCMonitoring-only DMARC policy

What to do next

Review the records with your mail administrator. Inventory legitimate senders and test SPF and DKIM alignment before enforcing a stricter DMARC policy. Fix duplicate records and investigate overly permissive SPF rules.

This bounded check does not send email, probe SMTP, evaluate recursive SPF includes, verify DKIM signatures or apply organizational-domain DMARC inheritance. A missing subdomain record does not prove that no inherited protection exists. A DNS timeout is unknown, not an absent record. A policy record is not proof that messages authenticate successfully.

Responsible disclosure

security.txt

RFC 9116 observation

No readable security.txt file was observed at the standard locations. This is informational and is not evidence of malware.

Browser protections

Security headers

1 observed
x-content-type-optionspresent nosniff

Response headers

Cookie protections

Passive observation

No Set-Cookie header was observed on the sampled homepage response. Other pages may set cookies separately.

Detected stack

Technologies

Bootstrap 80% Google Analytics 94% Next.js 96% Nginx 93% Tailwind CSS 72%

Versions are shown only when publicly exposed by the page or response headers. An observed version is not, by itself, proof of a vulnerability.

JavaScript library advisories

JavaScript advisory analysis could not be completed or no eligible script files were sampled. No clean result is implied.

Recommended maintenance checks

Next.jsKeep Next.js and its runtime dependencies current, especially when server-side rendering is enabled.
NginxReview the Nginx branch and keep security patches current. Avoid exposing detailed server version headers.

About this website

What the site says about itself

About the WSWS

View the site's About page ↗

This is publisher supplied information. The independent safety findings are shown separately.

Structured facts

Website identity & response

Public page metadata
Page titleWorld Socialist Web Site - Marxist analysis, international working class struggles & the fight for socialism
First headingUnavailable
DescriptionMarxist analysis, international working class struggles & the fight for socialism
Canonical URLhttps://www.wsws.org/en
Final URLhttps://www.wsws.org/en?redirect=true
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=utf-8 · 2000 ms
LanguageUnknown
Structured typesNone observed
Page page detectedhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/25/bdkf-s25.htmlAbout page detectedhttps://www.wsws.org/en/special/pages/icfi/wsws.html
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
missing100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors credentials with wildcard100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.cname present100% evidence confidence
unavailable100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
4100% evidence confidence
10100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors wildcard origin100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.hsts present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions policy present100% evidence confidence

Connection path

Redirect chain

2 recorded hops
Hop 1https://www.wsws.org/
Hop 2https://www.wsws.org/en?redirect=true

The chain is shown exactly as observed by the scanner. A redirect is not itself a malware finding, but unexpected domains or an HTTP downgrade deserve review.

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Compared with the previous scan

What changed

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Explainable matching

Digital fingerprint

fingerprint-v1
clear-vector-path-633

Comparable components help find technically related websites. A match does not prove common ownership.

DnsHashed private comparison value
TechnologiesHashed private comparison value

Material changes only

Change history

No meaningful changes recorded yet.

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Visual evidence

Website screenshot

Screenshot of wsws.org
Earlier browser capture retained because this scan did not produce a usable replacement. It is not fresh scan evidence.

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Questions about wsws.org

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Is wsws.org safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 69/100 with 75% Evidence Confidence. This is a point-in-time assessment of observed technical signals, not a guarantee. Check the exact address and avoid entering payment details if anything looks unusual.

Did the scan detect malware on wsws.org?

External threat-provider coverage was unavailable for this scan, so malware status is unverified.

When was wsws.org registered?

The public registry record shows Jan 22, 1998. Registration details may be privacy-protected or updated later.

Did wsws.org have a valid TLS certificate?

The scanner observed a valid TLS certificate using TLSv1.2. A valid certificate alone does not establish that the site is safe.

Can a paid listing change this website's score?

No. Premium placement and owner-supplied pages are labelled separately. Technical evidence, the Safety Score and moderation decisions remain independent.