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Total Issues

1,364

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

9

With reported issues

Total Impact

1M

Active installations

Clear
SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
68.8%
security
939
issues
20.5%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
44
issues
9
plugins
112K
impact
plugin_repo
279
issues
5.5%
general
75
issues
4.2%
performance
57
issues
1.0%
uncategorized
14
issues
2
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
43
issues
9
plugins
112K
impact
3
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
18
issues
6
plugins
97K
impact
4
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
36
issues
5
plugins
91K
impact
5
plugin_header_no_license
ERRORplugin_repo
plugin_header_no_license
5
issues
5
plugins
91K
impact
6
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
26
issues
5
plugins
90K
impact
7
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
54
issues
6
plugins
82K
impact
8
NonPrefixedFunctionFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
49
issues
8
plugins
67K
impact
9
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
367
issues
9
plugins
66K
impact
10
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
81
issues
9
plugins
66K
impact
11
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
80
issues
9
plugins
66K
impact
12
outdated_tested_upto_header
ERRORplugin_repo
outdated_tested_upto_header
7
issues
7
plugins
64K
impact
13
load_plugin_textdomainFound
WARNINGplugin_repo
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound
4
issues
4
plugins
45K
impact
14
trademarked_term
ERRORplugin_repo
trademarked_term
6
issues
3
plugins
42K
impact
15
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
70
issues
6
plugins
41K
impact
16
five_star_reviews_detected
ERRORplugin_repo
five_star_reviews_detected
2
issues
2
plugins
39K
impact
17
UnorderedPlaceholdersText
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.UnorderedPlaceholdersText
7
issues
3
plugins
38K
impact
18
readme_parser_warnings_too_many_tags
WARNINGplugin_repo
readme_parser_warnings_too_many_tags
6
issues
6
plugins
34K
impact
19
UnsafePrintingFunction
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.UnsafePrintingFunction
72
issues
5
plugins
33K
impact
20
unlink_unlink
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.unlink_unlink
11
issues
3
plugins
31K
impact