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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

2,985

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

12

With reported issues

Total Impact

2M

Active installations

Clear
SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
49.5%
plugin_repo
1,477
issues
42.1%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
797
issues
12
plugins
188K
impact
security
1,258
issues
6.6%
general
198
issues
1.2%
performance
35
issues
0.6%
uncategorized
17
issues
2
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
54
issues
10
plugins
158K
impact
3
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
50
issues
10
plugins
158K
impact
4
readme_parser_warnings_too_many_tags
WARNINGplugin_repo
readme_parser_warnings_too_many_tags
7
issues
7
plugins
147K
impact
5
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
56
issues
3
plugins
115K
impact
6
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
35
issues
3
plugins
115K
impact
7
Discouraged
WARNINGuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged
1
issues
1
plugins
100K
impact
8
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
37
issues
9
plugins
80K
impact
9
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
1K
issues
6
plugins
53K
impact
10
outdated_tested_upto_header
ERRORplugin_repo
outdated_tested_upto_header
8
issues
8
plugins
48K
impact
11
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
37
issues
6
plugins
43K
impact
12
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
32
issues
6
plugins
43K
impact
13
trunk_stable_tag
ERRORplugin_repo
trunk_stable_tag
4
issues
4
plugins
42K
impact
14
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
17
issues
5
plugins
41K
impact
15
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
32
issues
6
plugins
35K
impact
16
NotInFooter
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.WP.EnqueuedResourceParameters.NotInFooter
15
issues
5
plugins
33K
impact
17
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
87
issues
4
plugins
30K
impact
18
UnsafePrintingFunction
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.UnsafePrintingFunction
45
issues
5
plugins
30K
impact
19
date_date
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DateTime.RestrictedFunctions.date_date
6
issues
3
plugins
30K
impact
20
NonPrefixedFunctionFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
173
issues
4
plugins
28K
impact