KeePass Plugins

Introduction

KeePass features a plugin framework. Plugins can provide additional functionality, like support of more file formats for import/export, network functionalities, backup features, etc.


Online Resources

You can download the latest KeePass plugins (and their source code) from:
http://keepass.sourceforge.net/plugins.php


Plugin installation

To install a plugin, follow these steps:

1. Download the plugin from the page above and unpack the .ZIP file to a directory of your choice.
2. Copy the plugin .DLL file into the KeePass directory (where the KeePass.exe is).
3. Start KeePass and enable the plugin in the plugins dialog ('Tools - Plugins...').
4. Restart KeePass in order to load the new plugin.

To uninstall a plugin, just delete its .DLL file. You don't need to disable it in the plugins dialog first.


Security

Some people had doubts about the security of plugins: can't malicious spyware plugins 'inject' themselves into KeePass? Of course, they theoretically can, but if plugins can register themselves (i.e. have write access to the KeePass directory), they could also just replace the whole KeePass.exe. It's rather a problem of the file system security, not the plugin system.

If you worry about this, you can do the following:

1. Install KeePass as administrator.
2. Delete the KeePass.ini in the KeePass directory.
3. Write-protect the KeePass directory. Nobody must have write-access.
4. Log on as normal user (with no administrator privileges).

This will solve the problem above. Since the KeePass directory is write-protected, no other program can copy files into it. KeePass requires the plugins to be in the application directory, paths with characters like '.' and '\' are simply rejected. Therefore, plugins cannot inject themselves anymore.

Because you have deleted the .INI file and KeePass cannot create a new one in its application directory, it'll use your users directory.