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Total Issues

1,260

Across 3 categories

Affected Plugins

15

With reported issues

Total Impact

4M

Active installations

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Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
95.1%
security
1,198
issues
4.8%
performance
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
344
issues
15
plugins
615K
impact
61
issues
0.1%
uncategorized
1
issues
2
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
327
issues
15
plugins
615K
impact
3
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
262
issues
10
plugins
549K
impact
4
InterpolatedNotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared
219
issues
8
plugins
549K
impact
5
slow_db_query_meta_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_query
19
issues
7
plugins
440K
impact
6
slow_db_query_tax_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_tax_query
19
issues
4
plugins
417K
impact
7
LikeWildcardsInQuery
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.LikeWildcardsInQuery
1
issues
1
plugins
300K
impact
8
SchemaChange
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.SchemaChange
15
issues
8
plugins
253K
impact
9
slow_db_query_meta_key
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_key
14
issues
6
plugins
126K
impact
10
slow_db_query_meta_value
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_value
9
issues
5
plugins
116K
impact
11
LikeWildcardsInQueryWithPlaceholder
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.LikeWildcardsInQueryWithPlaceholder
3
issues
1
plugins
100K
impact
12
ReplacementsWrongNumber
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.ReplacementsWrongNumber
4
issues
1
plugins
20K
impact
13
UnfinishedPrepare
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.UnfinishedPrepare
2
issues
2
plugins
20K
impact
14
UnsupportedIdentifierPlaceholder
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.UnsupportedIdentifierPlaceholder
11
issues
1
plugins
7K
impact
15
QuotedSimplePlaceholder
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.QuotedSimplePlaceholder
8
issues
1
plugins
7K
impact
16
UnnecessaryPrepare
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.UnnecessaryPrepare
2
issues
1
plugins
7K
impact
17
mysql_mysqli_connect
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysqli_connect
1
issues
1
plugins
7K
impact