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Total Issues

3,377

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

5

With reported issues

Total Impact

10M

Active installations

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SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
48.3%
plugin_repo
1,632
issues
25.3%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
38
issues
5
plugins
675K
impact
general
855
issues
24.8%
security
836
issues
1.3%
performance
43
issues
0.3%
uncategorized
11
issues
2
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
34
issues
5
plugins
675K
impact
3
load_plugin_textdomainFound
WARNINGplugin_repo
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound
5
issues
5
plugins
675K
impact
4
slow_db_query_meta_key
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_key
4
issues
3
plugins
660K
impact
5
hidden_files
ERRORplugin_repo
hidden_files
7
issues
4
plugins
615K
impact
6
unlink_unlink
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.unlink_unlink
18
issues
3
plugins
605K
impact
7
Discouraged
WARNINGuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged
5
issues
3
plugins
605K
impact
8
readme_parser_warnings_too_many_tags
WARNINGplugin_repo
readme_parser_warnings_too_many_tags
2
issues
2
plugins
600K
impact
9
missing_composer_json_file
ERRORplugin_repo
missing_composer_json_file
2
issues
2
plugins
600K
impact
10
TextDomainMismatch
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch
836
issues
3
plugins
515K
impact
11
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
19
issues
2
plugins
510K
impact
12
SchemaChange
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.SchemaChange
7
issues
2
plugins
510K
impact
13
textdomain_mismatch
ERRORplugin_repo
textdomain_mismatch
2
issues
2
plugins
510K
impact
14
trademarked_term
ERRORplugin_repo
trademarked_term
2
issues
2
plugins
510K
impact
15
mismatched_plugin_name
WARNINGuncategorized
mismatched_plugin_name
2
issues
2
plugins
510K
impact
16
InterpolatedNotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared
20
issues
1
plugins
500K
impact
17
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
3
issues
1
plugins
500K
impact
18
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
1K
issues
4
plugins
175K
impact
19
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
609
issues
4
plugins
175K
impact
20
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
144
issues
4
plugins
175K
impact