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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

3,438

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

7

With reported issues

Total Impact

10M

Active installations

Clear
SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
36.4%
security
1,252
issues
34.8%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
825
issues
7
plugins
plugin_repo
1,197
issues
25.3%
general
870
issues
2.2%
performance
77
issues
1.2%
uncategorized
42
issues
613K
impact
2
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
84
issues
7
plugins
612K
impact
3
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
344
issues
6
plugins
610K
impact
4
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
94
issues
6
plugins
609K
impact
5
trademarked_term
ERRORplugin_repo
trademarked_term
10
issues
5
plugins
515K
impact
6
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
56
issues
4
plugins
513K
impact
7
file_system_operations_fclose
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fclose
9
issues
4
plugins
513K
impact
8
file_system_operations_fwrite
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fwrite
12
issues
3
plugins
510K
impact
9
file_system_operations_fopen
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fopen
11
issues
3
plugins
510K
impact
10
error_log_error_log
WARNINGplugin_repo
WordPress.PHP.DevelopmentFunctions.error_log_error_log
10
issues
3
plugins
510K
impact
11
error_log_print_r
WARNINGplugin_repo
WordPress.PHP.DevelopmentFunctions.error_log_print_r
9
issues
3
plugins
510K
impact
12
parse_url_parse_url
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.parse_url_parse_url
6
issues
3
plugins
510K
impact
13
Discouraged
WARNINGuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged
4
issues
3
plugins
510K
impact
14
Found
ERRORuncategorized
Generic.PHP.ForbiddenFunctions.Found
4
issues
3
plugins
510K
impact
15
strip_tags_strip_tags
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.strip_tags_strip_tags
13
issues
2
plugins
500K
impact
16
UnfinishedPrepare
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.UnfinishedPrepare
5
issues
2
plugins
500K
impact
17
mismatched_plugin_name
WARNINGuncategorized
mismatched_plugin_name
4
issues
4
plugins
399K
impact
18
five_star_reviews_detected
ERRORplugin_repo
five_star_reviews_detected
3
issues
3
plugins
323K
impact
19
DynamicHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.DynamicHooknameFound
10
issues
3
plugins
320K
impact
20
wp_redirect_wp_redirect
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.SafeRedirect.wp_redirect_wp_redirect
3
issues
2
plugins
320K
impact