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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

4,298

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

5

With reported issues

Total Impact

2M

Active installations

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SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
62.1%
security
2,669
issues
19.6%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
2K
issues
5
plugins
116K
impact
plugin_repo
842
issues
15.1%
general
651
issues
1.7%
uncategorized
73
issues
1.5%
performance
63
issues
2
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
143
issues
5
plugins
116K
impact
3
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
322
issues
4
plugins
113K
impact
4
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
136
issues
4
plugins
113K
impact
5
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
109
issues
4
plugins
113K
impact
6
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
84
issues
4
plugins
113K
impact
7
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
68
issues
4
plugins
113K
impact
8
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
50
issues
4
plugins
113K
impact
9
load_plugin_textdomainFound
WARNINGplugin_repo
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound
5
issues
4
plugins
113K
impact
10
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
616
issues
3
plugins
110K
impact
11
InterpolatedNotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared
61
issues
3
plugins
110K
impact
12
NonPrefixedFunctionFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
54
issues
3
plugins
110K
impact
13
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
28
issues
3
plugins
110K
impact
14
UnorderedPlaceholdersText
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.UnorderedPlaceholdersText
62
issues
3
plugins
103K
impact
15
SchemaChange
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.SchemaChange
10
issues
3
plugins
103K
impact
16
UnsafePrintingFunction
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.UnsafePrintingFunction
7
issues
3
plugins
103K
impact
17
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
74
issues
2
plugins
100K
impact
18
file_system_operations_fopen
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fopen
2
issues
2
plugins
100K
impact
19
file_system_operations_fclose
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fclose
2
issues
2
plugins
100K
impact
20
file_system_operations_fwrite
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fwrite
2
issues
2
plugins
100K
impact