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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

2,110

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

4

With reported issues

Total Impact

988K

Active installations

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Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
67.3%
security
1,420
issues
19.1%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
93
issues
4
plugins
59K
impact
general
404
issues
9.0%
plugin_repo
189
issues
3.5%
uncategorized
74
issues
1.1%
performance
23
issues
2
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
70
issues
4
plugins
59K
impact
3
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
62
issues
3
plugins
54K
impact
4
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
311
issues
4
plugins
53K
impact
5
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
176
issues
3
plugins
49K
impact
6
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
174
issues
3
plugins
49K
impact
7
UnsafePrintingFunction
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.UnsafePrintingFunction
153
issues
3
plugins
49K
impact
8
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
144
issues
3
plugins
49K
impact
9
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
110
issues
3
plugins
49K
impact
10
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
94
issues
3
plugins
49K
impact
11
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
69
issues
3
plugins
49K
impact
12
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
10
issues
3
plugins
49K
impact
13
outdated_tested_upto_header
ERRORplugin_repo
outdated_tested_upto_header
3
issues
3
plugins
49K
impact
14
no_license
ERRORuncategorized
no_license
3
issues
3
plugins
49K
impact
15
plugin_header_no_license
ERRORplugin_repo
plugin_header_no_license
3
issues
3
plugins
48K
impact
16
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
55
issues
2
plugins
45K
impact
17
wp_redirect_wp_redirect
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.SafeRedirect.wp_redirect_wp_redirect
15
issues
2
plugins
45K
impact
18
strip_tags_strip_tags
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.strip_tags_strip_tags
14
issues
2
plugins
45K
impact
19
NonSingularStringLiteralText
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.NonSingularStringLiteralText
9
issues
2
plugins
45K
impact
20
Found
ERRORuncategorized
Generic.PHP.ForbiddenFunctions.Found
7
issues
2
plugins
45K
impact