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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

12,497

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

6

With reported issues

Total Impact

1M

Active installations

Clear
SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
75.4%
security
9,427
issues
17.6%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
1K
issues
6
plugins
74K
plugin_repo
2,201
issues
6.2%
general
773
issues
0.5%
performance
57
issues
0.3%
uncategorized
39
issues
impact
2
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
851
issues
6
plugins
74K
impact
3
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
309
issues
6
plugins
74K
impact
4
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
3K
issues
5
plugins
72K
impact
5
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
256
issues
5
plugins
72K
impact
6
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
1K
issues
5
plugins
67K
impact
7
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
882
issues
5
plugins
67K
impact
8
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
844
issues
5
plugins
67K
impact
9
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
458
issues
5
plugins
67K
impact
10
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
310
issues
5
plugins
67K
impact
11
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
587
issues
4
plugins
65K
impact
12
InterpolatedNotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared
171
issues
4
plugins
65K
impact
13
SchemaChange
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.SchemaChange
86
issues
4
plugins
65K
impact
14
NonPrefixedFunctionFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
292
issues
4
plugins
63K
impact
15
NonPrefixedClassFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedClassFound
13
issues
2
plugins
60K
impact
16
QuotedSimplePlaceholder
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.QuotedSimplePlaceholder
10
issues
2
plugins
60K
impact
17
slow_db_query_meta_key
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_key
9
issues
2
plugins
60K
impact
18
slow_db_query_meta_value
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_value
7
issues
2
plugins
60K
impact
19
load_plugin_textdomainFound
WARNINGplugin_repo
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound
3
issues
3
plugins
51K
impact
20
slow_db_query_tax_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_tax_query
4
issues
2
plugins
47K
impact