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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

10,635

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

20

With reported issues

Total Impact

16M

Active installations

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SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
53.9%
security
5,733
issues
28.4%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
168
issues
12
plugins
1M
impact
general
3,024
issues
14.2%
plugin_repo
1,505
issues
2.3%
uncategorized
243
issues
1.2%
performance
130
issues
2
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
66
issues
12
plugins
1M
impact
3
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
426
issues
17
plugins
1M
impact
4
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
293
issues
12
plugins
1M
impact
5
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
281
issues
12
plugins
1M
impact
6
file_system_operations_is_writable
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_is_writable
14
issues
7
plugins
989K
impact
7
strip_tags_strip_tags
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.strip_tags_strip_tags
18
issues
7
plugins
987K
impact
8
slow_db_query_meta_key
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_key
7
issues
2
plugins
900K
impact
9
slow_db_query_meta_value
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_value
2
issues
2
plugins
900K
impact
10
NotInFooter
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.WP.EnqueuedResourceParameters.NotInFooter
45
issues
8
plugins
893K
impact
11
plugin_header_nonexistent_domain_path
ERRORplugin_repo
plugin_header_nonexistent_domain_path
5
issues
5
plugins
733K
impact
12
load_plugin_textdomainFound
WARNINGplugin_repo
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound
21
issues
14
plugins
520K
impact
13
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
480
issues
13
plugins
513K
impact
14
TextDomainMismatch
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch
2K
issues
14
plugins
503K
impact
15
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
2K
issues
20
plugins
499K
impact
16
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
479
issues
19
plugins
489K
impact
17
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
358
issues
19
plugins
489K
impact
18
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
854
issues
18
plugins
480K
impact
19
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
151
issues
17
plugins
474K
impact
20
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
309
issues
14
plugins
461K
impact