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Total Issues

494

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

4

With reported issues

Total Impact

505K

Active installations

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Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
56.5%
security
279
issues
22.5%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
84
issues
4
plugins
41K
impact
general
111
issues
15.4%
plugin_repo
76
issues
4.5%
performance
22
issues
1.2%
uncategorized
6
issues
2
plugin_header_no_license
ERRORplugin_repo
plugin_header_no_license
4
issues
4
plugins
41K
impact
3
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
23
issues
3
plugins
33K
impact
4
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
21
issues
3
plugins
33K
impact
5
TextDomainMismatch
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch
101
issues
2
plugins
26K
impact
6
UnsafePrintingFunction
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.UnsafePrintingFunction
36
issues
2
plugins
26K
impact
7
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
29
issues
2
plugins
26K
impact
8
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
26
issues
2
plugins
26K
impact
9
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
14
issues
2
plugins
26K
impact
10
trademarked_term
ERRORplugin_repo
trademarked_term
4
issues
2
plugins
26K
impact
11
invalid_tested_upto_minor
ERRORplugin_repo
invalid_tested_upto_minor
3
issues
3
plugins
21K
impact
12
slow_db_query_meta_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_query
8
issues
1
plugins
20K
impact
13
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
8
issues
1
plugins
20K
impact
14
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
6
issues
1
plugins
20K
impact
15
slow_db_query_meta_value
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_value
4
issues
1
plugins
20K
impact
16
slow_db_query_meta_key
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_key
4
issues
1
plugins
20K
impact
17
five_star_reviews_detected
ERRORplugin_repo
five_star_reviews_detected
2
issues
1
plugins
20K
impact
18
slow_db_query_tax_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_tax_query
2
issues
1
plugins
20K
impact
19
NotAllowed
ERRORuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.Heredoc.NotAllowed
2
issues
1
plugins
20K
impact
20
badly_named_files
ERRORplugin_repo
badly_named_files
1
issues
1
plugins
20K
impact