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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

2,676,825

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

3,608

With reported issues

Total Impact

3B

Active installations

SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
42.7%
security
1,143,921
issues
32.7%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
582K
issues
3K
plugins
plugin_repo
874,436
issues
21.1%
general
565,855
issues
1.8%
uncategorized
48,739
issues
1.6%
performance
43,874
issues
218M
impact
2
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
86K
issues
3K
plugins
212M
impact
3
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
423K
issues
4K
plugins
200M
impact
4
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
103K
issues
3K
plugins
196M
impact
5
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
68K
issues
3K
plugins
191M
impact
6
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
94K
issues
3K
plugins
188M
impact
7
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
52K
issues
2K
plugins
173M
impact
8
NonPrefixedFunctionFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
67K
issues
2K
plugins
170M
impact
9
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
57K
issues
2K
plugins
166M
impact
10
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
54K
issues
2K
plugins
155M
impact
11
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
66K
issues
2K
plugins
155M
impact
12
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
48K
issues
3K
plugins
152M
impact
13
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
39K
issues
2K
plugins
147M
impact
14
mismatched_plugin_name
WARNINGuncategorized
mismatched_plugin_name
2K
issues
2K
plugins
137M
impact
15
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
26K
issues
2K
plugins
135M
impact
16
trademarked_term
ERRORplugin_repo
trademarked_term
4K
issues
2K
plugins
132M
impact
17
TextDomainMismatch
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch
409K
issues
2K
plugins
127M
impact
18
load_plugin_textdomainFound
WARNINGplugin_repo
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound
2K
issues
2K
plugins
123M
impact
19
NotInFooter
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.WP.EnqueuedResourceParameters.NotInFooter
10K
issues
2K
plugins
111M
impact
20
date_date
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DateTime.RestrictedFunctions.date_date
18K
issues
1K
plugins
109M
impact