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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

4,155

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

4

With reported issues

Total Impact

2M

Active installations

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Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
47.8%
security
1,985
issues
43.9%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
TextDomainMismatch
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch
2K
issues
4
plugins
135K
impact
general
1,826
issues
4.4%
plugin_repo
183
issues
3.3%
performance
137
issues
0.6%
uncategorized
24
issues
2
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
116
issues
4
plugins
135K
impact
3
PostNotIn_exclude
WARNINGperformance
WordPressVIPMinimum.Performance.WPQueryParams.PostNotIn_exclude
26
issues
3
plugins
130K
impact
4
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
114
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
5
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
84
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
6
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
80
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
7
ExceptionNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.ExceptionNotEscaped
80
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
8
slow_db_query_meta_key
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_key
18
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
9
Discouraged
WARNINGuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged
16
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
10
slow_db_query_meta_value
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_value
14
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
11
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
8
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
12
trademarked_term
ERRORplugin_repo
trademarked_term
6
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
13
NonPrefixedConstantFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedConstantFound
4
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
14
update_modification_detected
ERRORplugin_repo
update_modification_detected
4
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
15
plugin_updater_detected
ERRORplugin_repo
plugin_updater_detected
2
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
16
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
66
issues
3
plugins
115K
impact
17
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
65
issues
3
plugins
115K
impact
18
error_log_error_log
WARNINGplugin_repo
WordPress.PHP.DevelopmentFunctions.error_log_error_log
5
issues
1
plugins
100K
impact
19
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
4
issues
1
plugins
100K
impact
20
NotAllowed
ERRORuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.Heredoc.NotAllowed
2
issues
1
plugins
100K
impact