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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

813

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

4

With reported issues

Total Impact

5M

Active installations

Clear
SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
61.3%
security
498
issues
18.2%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
54
issues
4
plugins
340K
general
148
issues
16.1%
plugin_repo
131
issues
2.8%
performance
23
issues
1.6%
uncategorized
13
issues
impact
2
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
29
issues
3
plugins
330K
impact
3
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
8
issues
3
plugins
330K
impact
4
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
6
issues
3
plugins
330K
impact
5
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
6
issues
3
plugins
330K
impact
6
load_plugin_textdomainFound
WARNINGplugin_repo
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound
3
issues
3
plugins
320K
impact
7
NotAllowed
ERRORuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.Heredoc.NotAllowed
2
issues
2
plugins
320K
impact
8
trademarked_term
ERRORplugin_repo
trademarked_term
4
issues
2
plugins
310K
impact
9
ExceptionNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.ExceptionNotEscaped
38
issues
1
plugins
300K
impact
10
parse_url_parse_url
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.parse_url_parse_url
2
issues
1
plugins
300K
impact
11
rename_rename
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.rename_rename
1
issues
1
plugins
300K
impact
12
license_mismatch
ERRORplugin_repo
license_mismatch
1
issues
1
plugins
300K
impact
13
missing_composer_json_file
ERRORplugin_repo
missing_composer_json_file
1
issues
1
plugins
300K
impact
14
readme_mismatched_header_requires_php
ERRORplugin_repo
readme_mismatched_header_requires_php
1
issues
1
plugins
300K
impact
15
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
64
issues
3
plugins
40K
impact
16
plugin_header_no_license
ERRORplugin_repo
plugin_header_no_license
3
issues
3
plugins
40K
impact
17
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
185
issues
2
plugins
30K
impact
18
UnsafePrintingFunction
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.UnsafePrintingFunction
68
issues
2
plugins
30K
impact
19
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
59
issues
2
plugins
30K
impact
20
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
50
issues
2
plugins
30K
impact