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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

12,718

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

6

With reported issues

Total Impact

1M

Active installations

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Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
51.2%
security
6,509
issues
39.9%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
87
issues
6
plugins
76K
impact
plugin_repo
5,079
issues
7.6%
general
968
issues
0.9%
performance
114
issues
0.4%
uncategorized
48
issues
2
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
82
issues
6
plugins
76K
impact
3
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
24
issues
6
plugins
76K
impact
4
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
4K
issues
5
plugins
69K
impact
5
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
4K
issues
5
plugins
69K
impact
6
UnsafePrintingFunction
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.UnsafePrintingFunction
877
issues
5
plugins
69K
impact
7
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
485
issues
5
plugins
69K
impact
8
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
366
issues
5
plugins
69K
impact
9
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
326
issues
5
plugins
69K
impact
10
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
315
issues
5
plugins
69K
impact
11
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
310
issues
5
plugins
69K
impact
12
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
204
issues
5
plugins
69K
impact
13
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
162
issues
5
plugins
69K
impact
14
strip_tags_strip_tags
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.strip_tags_strip_tags
127
issues
5
plugins
69K
impact
15
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
83
issues
5
plugins
69K
impact
16
NotInFooter
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.WP.EnqueuedResourceParameters.NotInFooter
34
issues
5
plugins
69K
impact
17
MissingVersion
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.WP.EnqueuedResourceParameters.MissingVersion
15
issues
5
plugins
69K
impact
18
NonPrefixedFunctionFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
725
issues
4
plugins
66K
impact
19
TextDomainMismatch
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch
263
issues
4
plugins
66K
impact
20
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
199
issues
4
plugins
66K
impact