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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

8,543

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

11

With reported issues

Total Impact

3M

Active installations

Clear
SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
60.8%
security
5,197
issues
26.1%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
292
issues
10
plugins
202K
plugin_repo
2,227
issues
9.2%
general
786
issues
2.1%
uncategorized
179
issues
1.8%
performance
154
issues
impact
2
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
2K
issues
11
plugins
198K
impact
3
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
176
issues
10
plugins
197K
impact
4
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
310
issues
9
plugins
192K
impact
5
TextDomainMismatch
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch
380
issues
9
plugins
182K
impact
6
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
387
issues
8
plugins
178K
impact
7
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
623
issues
9
plugins
176K
impact
8
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
148
issues
7
plugins
173K
impact
9
UnsafePrintingFunction
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.UnsafePrintingFunction
518
issues
7
plugins
166K
impact
10
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
158
issues
7
plugins
166K
impact
11
file_system_operations_fclose
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fclose
69
issues
7
plugins
166K
impact
12
file_system_operations_fopen
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fopen
44
issues
7
plugins
166K
impact
13
load_plugin_textdomainFound
WARNINGplugin_repo
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound
11
issues
7
plugins
158K
impact
14
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
442
issues
6
plugins
157K
impact
15
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
246
issues
6
plugins
157K
impact
16
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
238
issues
6
plugins
157K
impact
17
wp_redirect_wp_redirect
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.SafeRedirect.wp_redirect_wp_redirect
26
issues
6
plugins
157K
impact
18
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
159
issues
7
plugins
156K
impact
19
readme_parser_warnings_too_many_tags
WARNINGplugin_repo
readme_parser_warnings_too_many_tags
8
issues
8
plugins
155K
impact
20
file_system_operations_fread
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fread
30
issues
5
plugins
153K
impact