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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

7,115

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

8

With reported issues

Total Impact

16M

Active installations

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SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
67.1%
security
4,777
issues
27.6%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
341
issues
8
plugins
1M
plugin_repo
1,962
issues
3.1%
general
218
issues
1.1%
uncategorized
81
issues
1.1%
performance
77
issues
impact
2
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
957
issues
7
plugins
1M
impact
3
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
46
issues
7
plugins
1M
impact
4
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
196
issues
6
plugins
890K
impact
5
NonPrefixedFunctionFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
406
issues
5
plugins
885K
impact
6
TextDomainMismatch
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch
54
issues
4
plugins
805K
impact
7
NonPrefixedClassFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedClassFound
95
issues
3
plugins
800K
impact
8
slow_db_query_meta_key
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_key
7
issues
3
plugins
800K
impact
9
DynamicHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.DynamicHooknameFound
17
issues
3
plugins
780K
impact
10
NotAllowed
ERRORuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.Heredoc.NotAllowed
9
issues
3
plugins
780K
impact
11
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
276
issues
6
plugins
716K
impact
12
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
3K
issues
5
plugins
711K
impact
13
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
285
issues
5
plugins
710K
impact
14
ExceptionNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.ExceptionNotEscaped
73
issues
2
plugins
700K
impact
15
strip_tags_strip_tags
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.strip_tags_strip_tags
22
issues
2
plugins
700K
impact
16
Discouraged
WARNINGuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged
5
issues
2
plugins
700K
impact
17
outdated_tested_upto_header
ERRORplugin_repo
outdated_tested_upto_header
2
issues
2
plugins
700K
impact
18
load_plugin_textdomainFound
WARNINGplugin_repo
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound
4
issues
4
plugins
611K
impact
19
UnsafePrintingFunction
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.UnsafePrintingFunction
676
issues
3
plugins
606K
impact
20
Found
ERRORuncategorized
Generic.PHP.ForbiddenFunctions.Found
5
issues
2
plugins
600K
impact