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Total Issues

41,212

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

32

With reported issues

Total Impact

300M

Active installations

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Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
42.8%
security
17,647
issues
34.3%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
1K
issues
32
plugins
17M
impact
plugin_repo
14,152
issues
17.8%
general
7,339
issues
4.3%
uncategorized
1,763
issues
0.8%
performance
311
issues
2
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
1K
issues
32
plugins
17M
impact
3
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
4K
issues
31
plugins
17M
impact
4
Discouraged
WARNINGuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged
300
issues
30
plugins
17M
impact
5
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
964
issues
29
plugins
17M
impact
6
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
2K
issues
27
plugins
17M
impact
7
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
6K
issues
29
plugins
17M
impact
8
file_system_operations_fopen
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fopen
576
issues
29
plugins
17M
impact
9
file_system_operations_fclose
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fclose
599
issues
28
plugins
17M
impact
10
file_system_operations_fwrite
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fwrite
421
issues
26
plugins
17M
impact
11
NonPrefixedConstantFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedConstantFound
334
issues
23
plugins
16M
impact
12
trademarked_term
ERRORplugin_repo
trademarked_term
53
issues
25
plugins
16M
impact
13
plugin_updater_detected
ERRORplugin_repo
plugin_updater_detected
16
issues
13
plugins
13M
impact
14
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
1K
issues
31
plugins
13M
impact
15
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
882
issues
31
plugins
13M
impact
16
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
461
issues
26
plugins
13M
impact
17
rename_rename
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.rename_rename
128
issues
20
plugins
12M
impact
18
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
589
issues
25
plugins
12M
impact
19
file_system_operations_fread
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fread
278
issues
23
plugins
12M
impact
20
update_modification_detected
ERRORplugin_repo
update_modification_detected
24
issues
14
plugins
12M
impact