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Total Issues

3,319

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

4

With reported issues

Total Impact

395K

Active installations

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SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
48.2%
plugin_repo
1,601
issues
45.5%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
644
issues
4
plugins
22K
impact
security
1,511
issues
3.3%
general
109
issues
2.5%
performance
83
issues
0.5%
uncategorized
15
issues
2
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
78
issues
4
plugins
22K
impact
3
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
45
issues
4
plugins
22K
impact
4
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
42
issues
4
plugins
22K
impact
5
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
30
issues
4
plugins
22K
impact
6
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
13
issues
4
plugins
22K
impact
7
slow_db_query_meta_key
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_key
11
issues
4
plugins
22K
impact
8
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
221
issues
3
plugins
19K
impact
9
UnsafePrintingFunction
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.UnsafePrintingFunction
156
issues
3
plugins
19K
impact
10
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
97
issues
3
plugins
19K
impact
11
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
90
issues
3
plugins
19K
impact
12
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
85
issues
3
plugins
19K
impact
13
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
47
issues
3
plugins
19K
impact
14
slow_db_query_tax_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_tax_query
16
issues
3
plugins
19K
impact
15
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
14
issues
3
plugins
19K
impact
16
PostNotIn_post__not_in
WARNINGperformance
WordPressVIPMinimum.Performance.WPQueryParams.PostNotIn_post__not_in
4
issues
3
plugins
19K
impact
17
Discouraged
WARNINGuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged
3
issues
3
plugins
19K
impact
18
UnorderedPlaceholdersText
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.UnorderedPlaceholdersText
6
issues
2
plugins
17K
impact
19
TextDomainMismatch
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch
2
issues
2
plugins
17K
impact
20
hidden_files
ERRORplugin_repo
hidden_files
2
issues
2
plugins
17K
impact