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Total Issues

1,777

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

5

With reported issues

Total Impact

923K

Active installations

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SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
52.7%
security
937
issues
22.7%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
17
issues
5
plugins
uncategorized
404
issues
17.4%
plugin_repo
309
issues
6.4%
general
113
issues
0.8%
performance
14
issues
141K
impact
2
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
125
issues
4
plugins
121K
impact
3
readme_reserved_contributors
ERRORplugin_repo
readme_reserved_contributors
1
issues
1
plugins
100K
impact
4
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
69
issues
3
plugins
38K
impact
5
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
65
issues
3
plugins
38K
impact
6
Discouraged
WARNINGuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged
8
issues
3
plugins
38K
impact
7
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
395
issues
3
plugins
33K
impact
8
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
104
issues
3
plugins
33K
impact
9
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
81
issues
3
plugins
33K
impact
10
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
57
issues
3
plugins
33K
impact
11
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
52
issues
3
plugins
33K
impact
12
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
52
issues
3
plugins
33K
impact
13
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
39
issues
3
plugins
33K
impact
14
load_plugin_textdomainFound
WARNINGplugin_repo
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound
3
issues
3
plugins
33K
impact
15
mismatched_plugin_name
WARNINGuncategorized
mismatched_plugin_name
3
issues
3
plugins
33K
impact
16
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
18
issues
2
plugins
30K
impact
17
file_system_operations_fopen
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fopen
17
issues
2
plugins
30K
impact
18
unlink_unlink
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.unlink_unlink
17
issues
2
plugins
30K
impact
19
InterpolatedNotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared
16
issues
2
plugins
30K
impact
20
file_system_operations_fclose
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fclose
12
issues
2
plugins
30K
impact