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Total Issues

650

Across 3 categories

Affected Plugins

20

With reported issues

Total Impact

3M

Active installations

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Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
88.6%
security
576
issues
11.1%
performance
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
238
issues
20
plugins
606K
impact
72
issues
0.3%
uncategorized
2
issues
2
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
212
issues
20
plugins
559K
impact
3
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
44
issues
9
plugins
328K
impact
4
InterpolatedNotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared
54
issues
7
plugins
258K
impact
5
SchemaChange
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.SchemaChange
16
issues
5
plugins
200K
impact
6
slow_db_query_meta_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_query
17
issues
7
plugins
198K
impact
7
slow_db_query_tax_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_tax_query
17
issues
7
plugins
194K
impact
8
slow_db_query_meta_key
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_key
24
issues
7
plugins
102K
impact
9
mysql__mysqli
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedClasses.mysql__mysqli
1
issues
1
plugins
100K
impact
10
mysql_mysqli_close
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysqli_close
1
issues
1
plugins
100K
impact
11
slow_db_query_meta_value
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_value
14
issues
4
plugins
87K
impact
12
QuotedSimplePlaceholder
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.QuotedSimplePlaceholder
9
issues
2
plugins
74K
impact
13
LikeWildcardsInQueryWithPlaceholder
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.LikeWildcardsInQueryWithPlaceholder
2
issues
1
plugins
10K
impact
14
UnfinishedPrepare
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.UnfinishedPrepare
1
issues
1
plugins
4K
impact