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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

2,287,245

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

2,873

With reported issues

Total Impact

3B

Active installations

SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
43.0%
security
984,499
issues
32.2%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
483K
issues
2K
plugins
plugin_repo
735,807
issues
21.3%
general
486,760
issues
1.9%
uncategorized
42,912
issues
1.6%
performance
37,267
issues
216M
impact
2
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
76K
issues
2K
plugins
211M
impact
3
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
357K
issues
3K
plugins
198M
impact
4
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
89K
issues
3K
plugins
194M
impact
5
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
59K
issues
3K
plugins
190M
impact
6
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
81K
issues
2K
plugins
187M
impact
7
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
45K
issues
2K
plugins
172M
impact
8
NonPrefixedFunctionFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
57K
issues
2K
plugins
169M
impact
9
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
50K
issues
2K
plugins
166M
impact
10
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
48K
issues
2K
plugins
155M
impact
11
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
57K
issues
2K
plugins
154M
impact
12
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
42K
issues
2K
plugins
151M
impact
13
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
34K
issues
2K
plugins
146M
impact
14
mismatched_plugin_name
WARNINGuncategorized
mismatched_plugin_name
1K
issues
1K
plugins
137M
impact
15
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
22K
issues
1K
plugins
134M
impact
16
trademarked_term
ERRORplugin_repo
trademarked_term
3K
issues
2K
plugins
132M
impact
17
TextDomainMismatch
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch
350K
issues
2K
plugins
126M
impact
18
load_plugin_textdomainFound
WARNINGplugin_repo
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound
2K
issues
2K
plugins
122M
impact
19
NotInFooter
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.WP.EnqueuedResourceParameters.NotInFooter
8K
issues
2K
plugins
110M
impact
20
date_date
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DateTime.RestrictedFunctions.date_date
16K
issues
1K
plugins
109M
impact