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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

2,694

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

6

With reported issues

Total Impact

16M

Active installations

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SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
44.9%
security
1,210
issues
25.9%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
25
issues
6
plugins
821K
impact
plugin_repo
699
issues
21.1%
general
568
issues
6.1%
uncategorized
165
issues
1.9%
performance
52
issues
2
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
103
issues
5
plugins
820K
impact
3
mismatched_plugin_name
WARNINGuncategorized
mismatched_plugin_name
5
issues
5
plugins
820K
impact
4
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
49
issues
4
plugins
810K
impact
5
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
77
issues
5
plugins
791K
impact
6
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
76
issues
5
plugins
791K
impact
7
trademarked_term
ERRORplugin_repo
trademarked_term
14
issues
5
plugins
791K
impact
8
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
172
issues
4
plugins
790K
impact
9
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
168
issues
4
plugins
790K
impact
10
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
149
issues
4
plugins
790K
impact
11
update_modification_detected
ERRORplugin_repo
update_modification_detected
7
issues
4
plugins
790K
impact
12
NotAllowed
ERRORuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.Heredoc.NotAllowed
13
issues
4
plugins
789K
impact
13
Found
ERRORuncategorized
Generic.PHP.ForbiddenFunctions.Found
8
issues
4
plugins
789K
impact
14
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
101
issues
3
plugins
780K
impact
15
DynamicHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.DynamicHooknameFound
13
issues
3
plugins
780K
impact
16
hidden_files
ERRORplugin_repo
hidden_files
10
issues
3
plugins
780K
impact
17
plugin_updater_detected
ERRORplugin_repo
plugin_updater_detected
4
issues
4
plugins
770K
impact
18
TextDomainMismatch
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch
463
issues
3
plugins
760K
impact
19
NonPrefixedConstantFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedConstantFound
36
issues
3
plugins
760K
impact
20
Discouraged
WARNINGuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged
24
issues
3
plugins
760K
impact