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Total Issues

1,398

Across 3 categories

Affected Plugins

7

With reported issues

Total Impact

430K

Active installations

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Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
93.3%
security
1,304
issues
4.6%
performance
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
379
issues
7
plugins
47K
impact
64
issues
2.1%
uncategorized
30
issues
2
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
339
issues
7
plugins
47K
impact
3
InterpolatedNotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared
129
issues
7
plugins
47K
impact
4
slow_db_query_meta_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_query
12
issues
6
plugins
45K
impact
5
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
437
issues
6
plugins
43K
impact
6
slow_db_query_meta_key
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_key
24
issues
5
plugins
35K
impact
7
slow_db_query_tax_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_tax_query
12
issues
3
plugins
22K
impact
8
slow_db_query_meta_value
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_value
16
issues
3
plugins
21K
impact
9
LikeWildcardsInQuery
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.LikeWildcardsInQuery
5
issues
2
plugins
17K
impact
10
SchemaChange
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.SchemaChange
5
issues
2
plugins
17K
impact
11
ReplacementsWrongNumber
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.ReplacementsWrongNumber
6
issues
1
plugins
10K
impact
12
mysql_mysql_real_escape_string
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_real_escape_string
15
issues
1
plugins
9K
impact
13
mysql_mysql_query
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_query
6
issues
1
plugins
9K
impact
14
mysql_mysql_fetch_array
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_fetch_array
2
issues
1
plugins
9K
impact
15
mysql_mysql_select_db
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_select_db
1
issues
1
plugins
9K
impact
16
mysql_mysql_num_rows
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_num_rows
1
issues
1
plugins
9K
impact
17
mysql_mysql_pconnect
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_pconnect
1
issues
1
plugins
9K
impact
18
mysql_mysql_error
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_error
1
issues
1
plugins
9K
impact
19
mysql__mysqli
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedClasses.mysql__mysqli
1
issues
1
plugins
9K
impact
20
QuotedSimplePlaceholder
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.QuotedSimplePlaceholder
2
issues
1
plugins
7K
impact