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Total Issues

15,158

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

15

With reported issues

Total Impact

51M

Active installations

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SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
47.4%
security
7,183
issues
34.3%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
474
issues
15
plugins
3M
plugin_repo
5,198
issues
12.8%
general
1,935
issues
4.8%
uncategorized
725
issues
0.8%
performance
117
issues
impact
2
Discouraged
WARNINGuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged
133
issues
14
plugins
3M
impact
3
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
1K
issues
14
plugins
3M
impact
4
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
278
issues
13
plugins
3M
impact
5
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
651
issues
14
plugins
3M
impact
6
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
542
issues
13
plugins
3M
impact
7
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
531
issues
13
plugins
3M
impact
8
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
244
issues
12
plugins
3M
impact
9
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
469
issues
13
plugins
3M
impact
10
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
554
issues
12
plugins
3M
impact
11
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
307
issues
12
plugins
3M
impact
12
file_system_operations_fclose
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fclose
285
issues
12
plugins
3M
impact
13
file_system_operations_fopen
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fopen
272
issues
12
plugins
3M
impact
14
InterpolatedNotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared
189
issues
11
plugins
3M
impact
15
file_system_operations_is_writable
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_is_writable
63
issues
12
plugins
3M
impact
16
file_system_operations_fwrite
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fwrite
203
issues
11
plugins
3M
impact
17
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
157
issues
12
plugins
3M
impact
18
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
2K
issues
12
plugins
2M
impact
19
file_system_operations_mkdir
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_mkdir
106
issues
12
plugins
2M
impact
20
file_system_operations_rmdir
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_rmdir
56
issues
11
plugins
2M
impact