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Total Issues

2,595

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

6

With reported issues

Total Impact

815K

Active installations

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Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
57.7%
security
1,497
issues
21.5%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
148
issues
6
plugins
50K
general
557
issues
16.4%
plugin_repo
426
issues
2.6%
performance
67
issues
1.8%
uncategorized
48
issues
impact
2
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
67
issues
6
plugins
50K
impact
3
NonPrefixedFunctionFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
53
issues
5
plugins
48K
impact
4
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
313
issues
5
plugins
47K
impact
5
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
212
issues
5
plugins
47K
impact
6
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
61
issues
4
plugins
45K
impact
7
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
44
issues
4
plugins
45K
impact
8
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
116
issues
3
plugins
43K
impact
9
NotInFooter
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.WP.EnqueuedResourceParameters.NotInFooter
27
issues
3
plugins
42K
impact
10
slow_db_query_meta_key
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_key
7
issues
3
plugins
42K
impact
11
error_log_trigger_error
WARNINGuncategorized
WordPress.PHP.DevelopmentFunctions.error_log_trigger_error
5
issues
3
plugins
42K
impact
12
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
21
issues
2
plugins
40K
impact
13
slow_db_query_meta_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_query
11
issues
2
plugins
40K
impact
14
Get_termsParam2Found
WARNINGplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.DeprecatedParameters.Get_termsParam2Found
6
issues
2
plugins
40K
impact
15
PostNotIn_exclude
WARNINGperformance
WordPressVIPMinimum.Performance.WPQueryParams.PostNotIn_exclude
3
issues
2
plugins
40K
impact
16
slow_db_query_tax_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_tax_query
2
issues
2
plugins
40K
impact
17
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
617
issues
5
plugins
30K
impact
18
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
176
issues
5
plugins
30K
impact
19
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
29
issues
4
plugins
27K
impact
20
strip_tags_strip_tags
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.strip_tags_strip_tags
13
issues
4
plugins
27K
impact