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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

27,922

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

25

With reported issues

Total Impact

13M

Active installations

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SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
58.9%
security
16,452
issues
21.7%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
2K
issues
25
plugins
910K
plugin_repo
6,062
issues
17.2%
general
4,792
issues
1.7%
uncategorized
485
issues
0.5%
performance
131
issues
impact
2
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
2K
issues
25
plugins
910K
impact
3
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
845
issues
25
plugins
896K
impact
4
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
807
issues
25
plugins
896K
impact
5
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
1K
issues
21
plugins
758K
impact
6
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
393
issues
21
plugins
695K
impact
7
date_date
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DateTime.RestrictedFunctions.date_date
158
issues
17
plugins
689K
impact
8
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
4K
issues
21
plugins
673K
impact
9
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
1K
issues
19
plugins
668K
impact
10
UnsafePrintingFunction
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.UnsafePrintingFunction
830
issues
15
plugins
638K
impact
11
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
758
issues
18
plugins
587K
impact
12
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
612
issues
15
plugins
575K
impact
13
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
2K
issues
17
plugins
573K
impact
14
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
5K
issues
15
plugins
535K
impact
15
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
214
issues
14
plugins
526K
impact
16
Discouraged
WARNINGuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged
63
issues
11
plugins
522K
impact
17
InterpolatedNotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared
111
issues
15
plugins
517K
impact
18
file_system_operations_fclose
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fclose
60
issues
13
plugins
473K
impact
19
file_system_operations_fopen
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fopen
50
issues
13
plugins
473K
impact
20
file_system_operations_fwrite
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fwrite
32
issues
11
plugins
461K
impact