Skip to main content
PluginScorePluginScore
Errors
PluginScore — Plugin Analyzer for WordPress
© 2025 PluginScore.
← Back to Leaderboard

Error Analytics

Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

10,726

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

10

With reported issues

Total Impact

27M

Active installations

Clear
SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
42.2%
security
4,522
issues
37.5%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
2K
issues
10
plugins
plugin_repo
4,027
issues
13.9%
general
1,489
issues
5.4%
uncategorized
583
issues
1.0%
performance
105
issues
1M
impact
2
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
279
issues
9
plugins
1M
impact
3
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
256
issues
9
plugins
1M
impact
4
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
142
issues
9
plugins
1M
impact
5
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
961
issues
9
plugins
1M
impact
6
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
328
issues
9
plugins
1M
impact
7
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
290
issues
9
plugins
1M
impact
8
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
254
issues
9
plugins
1M
impact
9
file_system_operations_fclose
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fclose
189
issues
9
plugins
1M
impact
10
file_system_operations_fopen
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fopen
168
issues
9
plugins
1M
impact
11
date_date
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DateTime.RestrictedFunctions.date_date
129
issues
9
plugins
1M
impact
12
Discouraged
WARNINGuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged
81
issues
9
plugins
1M
impact
13
NonPrefixedConstantFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedConstantFound
55
issues
9
plugins
1M
impact
14
NonPrefixedFunctionFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
143
issues
8
plugins
1M
impact
15
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
135
issues
8
plugins
1M
impact
16
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
115
issues
8
plugins
1M
impact
17
mismatched_plugin_name
WARNINGuncategorized
mismatched_plugin_name
8
issues
8
plugins
1M
impact
18
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
275
issues
8
plugins
1M
impact
19
file_system_operations_fread
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fread
65
issues
8
plugins
1M
impact
20
curl_curl_init
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.curl_curl_init
15
issues
7
plugins
1M
impact