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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

166,522

Across 3 categories

Affected Plugins

1,925

With reported issues

Total Impact

852M

Active installations

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Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
91.3%
security
152,077
issues
8.0%
performance
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
48K
issues
2K
plugins
172M
impact
13,277
issues
0.7%
uncategorized
1,168
issues
2
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
53K
issues
2K
plugins
166M
impact
3
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
26K
issues
1K
plugins
86M
impact
4
InterpolatedNotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared
18K
issues
840
plugins
69M
impact
5
slow_db_query_meta_key
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_key
6K
issues
673
plugins
65M
impact
6
slow_db_query_meta_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_query
3K
issues
638
plugins
61M
impact
7
SchemaChange
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.SchemaChange
4K
issues
658
plugins
53M
impact
8
slow_db_query_meta_value
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_value
2K
issues
458
plugins
51M
impact
9
slow_db_query_tax_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_tax_query
2K
issues
483
plugins
38M
impact
10
UnfinishedPrepare
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.UnfinishedPrepare
617
issues
193
plugins
19M
impact
11
QuotedSimplePlaceholder
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.QuotedSimplePlaceholder
963
issues
209
plugins
14M
impact
12
ReplacementsWrongNumber
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.ReplacementsWrongNumber
254
issues
105
plugins
9M
impact
13
mysql_mysqli_query
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysqli_query
57
issues
20
plugins
7M
impact
14
mysql_mysql_query
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_query
30
issues
16
plugins
7M
impact
15
LikeWildcardsInQuery
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.LikeWildcardsInQuery
222
issues
80
plugins
6M
impact
16
mysql_mysql_errno
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_errno
17
issues
6
plugins
6M
impact
17
mysql_mysqli_error
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysqli_error
69
issues
12
plugins
6M
impact
18
mysql_mysql_error
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_error
24
issues
11
plugins
6M
impact
19
mysql_mysql_free_result
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_free_result
10
issues
9
plugins
6M
impact
20
UnquotedComplexPlaceholder
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.UnquotedComplexPlaceholder
377
issues
49
plugins
6M
impact