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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

194,493

Across 3 categories

Affected Plugins

2,442

With reported issues

Total Impact

856M

Active installations

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Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
91.4%
security
177,750
issues
7.9%
performance
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
56K
issues
2K
plugins
173M
impact
15,444
issues
0.7%
uncategorized
1,299
issues
2
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
62K
issues
2K
plugins
167M
impact
3
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
30K
issues
1K
plugins
86M
impact
4
InterpolatedNotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared
21K
issues
1K
plugins
69M
impact
5
slow_db_query_meta_key
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_key
7K
issues
850
plugins
65M
impact
6
slow_db_query_meta_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_query
4K
issues
785
plugins
61M
impact
7
SchemaChange
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.SchemaChange
5K
issues
835
plugins
54M
impact
8
slow_db_query_meta_value
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_value
3K
issues
577
plugins
51M
impact
9
slow_db_query_tax_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_tax_query
2K
issues
617
plugins
38M
impact
10
UnfinishedPrepare
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.UnfinishedPrepare
710
issues
228
plugins
19M
impact
11
QuotedSimplePlaceholder
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.QuotedSimplePlaceholder
1K
issues
249
plugins
14M
impact
12
ReplacementsWrongNumber
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.ReplacementsWrongNumber
276
issues
116
plugins
9M
impact
13
mysql_mysqli_query
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysqli_query
70
issues
22
plugins
7M
impact
14
mysql_mysql_query
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_query
33
issues
18
plugins
7M
impact
15
LikeWildcardsInQuery
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.LikeWildcardsInQuery
250
issues
89
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
73
issues
14
plugins
6M
impact
18
mysql_mysql_error
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_error
27
issues
12
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
444
issues
58
plugins
6M
impact