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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

21,568

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

24

With reported issues

Total Impact

5M

Active installations

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SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
42.3%
security
9,133
issues
42.1%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
697
issues
24
plugins
289K
plugin_repo
9,089
issues
13.1%
general
2,833
issues
1.3%
uncategorized
274
issues
1.1%
performance
239
issues
impact
2
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
4K
issues
23
plugins
287K
impact
3
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
291
issues
23
plugins
286K
impact
4
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
8K
issues
20
plugins
278K
impact
5
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
422
issues
21
plugins
275K
impact
6
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
463
issues
17
plugins
274K
impact
7
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
423
issues
17
plugins
274K
impact
8
NonPrefixedFunctionFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
643
issues
20
plugins
272K
impact
9
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
233
issues
13
plugins
260K
impact
10
date_date
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DateTime.RestrictedFunctions.date_date
115
issues
12
plugins
257K
impact
11
TextDomainMismatch
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch
2K
issues
19
plugins
256K
impact
12
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
284
issues
12
plugins
256K
impact
13
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
364
issues
15
plugins
252K
impact
14
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
181
issues
16
plugins
252K
impact
15
InterpolatedNotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared
179
issues
11
plugins
243K
impact
16
UnsafePrintingFunction
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.UnsafePrintingFunction
836
issues
13
plugins
234K
impact
17
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
327
issues
11
plugins
233K
impact
18
Discouraged
WARNINGuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged
15
issues
6
plugins
231K
impact
19
SchemaChange
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.SchemaChange
46
issues
9
plugins
225K
impact
20
rand_rand
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.rand_rand
17
issues
9
plugins
214K
impact