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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

48,856

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

63

With reported issues

Total Impact

282M

Active installations

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SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
45.1%
security
22,055
issues
26.2%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
5K
issues
63
plugins
general
12,816
issues
24.7%
plugin_repo
12,046
issues
2.7%
uncategorized
1,338
issues
1.2%
performance
601
issues
21M
impact
2
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
2K
issues
57
plugins
21M
impact
3
NonPrefixedFunctionFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
819
issues
41
plugins
20M
impact
4
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
496
issues
34
plugins
18M
impact
5
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
967
issues
44
plugins
18M
impact
6
NonPrefixedConstantFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedConstantFound
285
issues
29
plugins
17M
impact
7
Discouraged
WARNINGuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged
129
issues
27
plugins
17M
impact
8
TextDomainMismatch
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch
10K
issues
36
plugins
16M
impact
9
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
399
issues
40
plugins
14M
impact
10
update_modification_detected
ERRORplugin_repo
update_modification_detected
18
issues
13
plugins
13M
impact
11
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
1K
issues
34
plugins
12M
impact
12
hidden_files
ERRORplugin_repo
hidden_files
35
issues
17
plugins
12M
impact
13
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
6K
issues
55
plugins
11M
impact
14
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
2K
issues
51
plugins
11M
impact
15
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
1K
issues
44
plugins
11M
impact
16
file_system_operations_fclose
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fclose
176
issues
32
plugins
11M
impact
17
file_system_operations_fopen
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fopen
146
issues
29
plugins
11M
impact
18
NonSingularStringLiteralText
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.NonSingularStringLiteralText
123
issues
16
plugins
10M
impact
19
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
858
issues
40
plugins
10M
impact
20
error_log_error_log
WARNINGplugin_repo
WordPress.PHP.DevelopmentFunctions.error_log_error_log
106
issues
28
plugins
9M
impact