Skip to main content
PluginScorePluginScore
Errors
PluginScore — Plugin Analyzer for WordPress
© 2025 PluginScore.
← Back to Leaderboard

Error Analytics

Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

3,288

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

6

With reported issues

Total Impact

2M

Active installations

Clear
SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
50.6%
plugin_repo
1,665
issues
46.4%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
121
issues
6
plugins
129K
impact
security
1,525
issues
1.5%
general
48
issues
1.3%
performance
42
issues
0.2%
uncategorized
8
issues
2
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
119
issues
6
plugins
129K
impact
3
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
1K
issues
5
plugins
127K
impact
4
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
106
issues
5
plugins
127K
impact
5
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
26
issues
5
plugins
127K
impact
6
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
36
issues
4
plugins
122K
impact
7
slow_db_query_tax_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_tax_query
9
issues
4
plugins
122K
impact
8
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
157
issues
4
plugins
117K
impact
9
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
70
issues
4
plugins
117K
impact
10
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
65
issues
4
plugins
117K
impact
11
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
48
issues
4
plugins
117K
impact
12
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
602
issues
3
plugins
112K
impact
13
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
25
issues
3
plugins
112K
impact
14
ExceptionNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.ExceptionNotEscaped
21
issues
3
plugins
112K
impact
15
date_date
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DateTime.RestrictedFunctions.date_date
4
issues
2
plugins
110K
impact
16
mismatched_plugin_name
WARNINGuncategorized
mismatched_plugin_name
3
issues
3
plugins
105K
impact
17
load_plugin_textdomainFound
WARNINGplugin_repo
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound
3
issues
3
plugins
105K
impact
18
five_star_reviews_detected
ERRORplugin_repo
five_star_reviews_detected
3
issues
2
plugins
100K
impact
19
InterpolatedNotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared
27
issues
3
plugins
97K
impact
20
file_system_operations_fclose
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fclose
3
issues
2
plugins
95K
impact