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Total Issues

2,627

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

4

With reported issues

Total Impact

21M

Active installations

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Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
51.1%
security
1,343
issues
22.6%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
282
issues
4
plugins
1M
impact
plugin_repo
593
issues
15.6%
uncategorized
411
issues
10.0%
general
262
issues
0.7%
performance
18
issues
2
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
272
issues
4
plugins
1M
impact
3
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
104
issues
3
plugins
1M
impact
4
unlink_unlink
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.unlink_unlink
100
issues
3
plugins
1M
impact
5
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
47
issues
3
plugins
1M
impact
6
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
46
issues
3
plugins
1M
impact
7
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
32
issues
3
plugins
1M
impact
8
file_system_operations_fopen
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fopen
11
issues
3
plugins
1M
impact
9
file_system_operations_fclose
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fclose
8
issues
3
plugins
1M
impact
10
NonPrefixedFunctionFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
7
issues
3
plugins
1M
impact
11
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
122
issues
2
plugins
1M
impact
12
parse_url_parse_url
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.parse_url_parse_url
40
issues
2
plugins
1M
impact
13
rename_rename
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.rename_rename
33
issues
2
plugins
1M
impact
14
error_log_print_r
WARNINGplugin_repo
WordPress.PHP.DevelopmentFunctions.error_log_print_r
26
issues
2
plugins
1M
impact
15
file_system_operations_fread
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fread
17
issues
2
plugins
1M
impact
16
NonPrefixedConstantFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedConstantFound
14
issues
2
plugins
1M
impact
17
NotInFooter
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.WP.EnqueuedResourceParameters.NotInFooter
11
issues
2
plugins
1M
impact
18
file_system_operations_chmod
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_chmod
10
issues
2
plugins
1M
impact
19
Discouraged
WARNINGuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged
9
issues
2
plugins
1M
impact
20
DynamicHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.DynamicHooknameFound
8
issues
2
plugins
1M
impact