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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

46,551

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

24

With reported issues

Total Impact

12M

Active installations

Clear
SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
49.0%
security
22,819
issues
32.0%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
4K
issues
20
plugins
plugin_repo
14,919
issues
14.2%
general
6,620
issues
3.3%
uncategorized
1,531
issues
1.4%
performance
662
issues
646K
impact
2
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
8K
issues
18
plugins
633K
impact
3
NonPrefixedFunctionFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
2K
issues
17
plugins
623K
impact
4
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
906
issues
19
plugins
608K
impact
5
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
857
issues
19
plugins
608K
impact
6
mismatched_plugin_name
WARNINGuncategorized
mismatched_plugin_name
18
issues
18
plugins
604K
impact
7
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
6K
issues
24
plugins
589K
impact
8
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
418
issues
18
plugins
588K
impact
9
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
3K
issues
21
plugins
586K
impact
10
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
1K
issues
20
plugins
582K
impact
11
slow_db_query_meta_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_query
107
issues
17
plugins
581K
impact
12
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
1K
issues
19
plugins
572K
impact
13
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
2K
issues
18
plugins
570K
impact
14
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
2K
issues
17
plugins
570K
impact
15
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
3K
issues
20
plugins
567K
impact
16
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
491
issues
19
plugins
563K
impact
17
slow_db_query_meta_key
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_key
118
issues
16
plugins
563K
impact
18
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
359
issues
17
plugins
558K
impact
19
TextDomainMismatch
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch
3K
issues
21
plugins
555K
impact
20
slow_db_query_meta_value
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_value
78
issues
14
plugins
548K
impact