Is it possible to use Lightroom Plugins on a cracked version?

Fuck Adobe, and their choice to not let people just flat out buy software.

That aside, I selfhost my own photo gallery, and a plugin exists to manage the site via Lightroom's "Publish" feature. Ideally, I would like to keep using Lightroom with the ability to publish to my own site via a local URL, but I cannot seem to get it to connect - even after tinkering with windows firewall rules. Curious if anyone has gotten plugin registration and features to work properly, while still being able to use the Crack provided by m0nkrus