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Total Issues

1,498

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

5

With reported issues

Total Impact

6M

Active installations

Clear
SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
65.0%
security
974
issues
17.2%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
69
issues
5
plugins
463K
impact
general
258
issues
12.6%
plugin_repo
189
issues
3.3%
uncategorized
49
issues
1.9%
performance
28
issues
2
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
67
issues
5
plugins
463K
impact
3
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
10
issues
4
plugins
433K
impact
4
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
427
issues
5
plugins
376K
impact
5
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
66
issues
4
plugins
373K
impact
6
missing_composer_json_file
ERRORplugin_repo
missing_composer_json_file
3
issues
3
plugins
370K
impact
7
ExceptionNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.ExceptionNotEscaped
35
issues
3
plugins
343K
impact
8
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
28
issues
3
plugins
343K
impact
9
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
13
issues
3
plugins
343K
impact
10
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
9
issues
3
plugins
343K
impact
11
DynamicHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.DynamicHooknameFound
20
issues
2
plugins
340K
impact
12
error_log_trigger_error
WARNINGuncategorized
WordPress.PHP.DevelopmentFunctions.error_log_trigger_error
12
issues
2
plugins
340K
impact
13
load_plugin_textdomainFound
WARNINGplugin_repo
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound
7
issues
2
plugins
340K
impact
14
NonPrefixedConstantFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedConstantFound
5
issues
2
plugins
340K
impact
15
five_star_reviews_detected
ERRORplugin_repo
five_star_reviews_detected
4
issues
2
plugins
303K
impact
16
register_settingMissing
ERRORplugin_repo
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.SettingSanitization.register_settingMissing
1
issues
1
plugins
300K
impact
17
readme_parser_warnings_too_many_tags
WARNINGplugin_repo
readme_parser_warnings_too_many_tags
5
issues
5
plugins
173K
impact
18
plugin_header_no_license
ERRORplugin_repo
plugin_header_no_license
5
issues
5
plugins
166K
impact
19
error_log_debug_backtrace
WARNINGuncategorized
WordPress.PHP.DevelopmentFunctions.error_log_debug_backtrace
8
issues
4
plugins
163K
impact
20
QuotedSimplePlaceholder
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.QuotedSimplePlaceholder
4
issues
3
plugins
160K
impact