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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

9,429

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

4

With reported issues

Total Impact

103M

Active installations

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SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
70.7%
security
6,670
issues
21.8%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
3K
issues
4
plugins
5M
impact
plugin_repo
2,056
issues
4.9%
general
462
issues
2.0%
uncategorized
186
issues
0.6%
performance
55
issues
2
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
2K
issues
4
plugins
5M
impact
3
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
545
issues
4
plugins
5M
impact
4
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
524
issues
4
plugins
5M
impact
5
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
477
issues
4
plugins
5M
impact
6
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
250
issues
4
plugins
5M
impact
7
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
246
issues
4
plugins
5M
impact
8
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
163
issues
4
plugins
5M
impact
9
Discouraged
WARNINGuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged
14
issues
4
plugins
5M
impact
10
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
495
issues
3
plugins
5M
impact
11
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
330
issues
3
plugins
5M
impact
12
date_date
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DateTime.RestrictedFunctions.date_date
65
issues
3
plugins
5M
impact
13
NonSingularStringLiteralText
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.NonSingularStringLiteralText
54
issues
3
plugins
5M
impact
14
UnorderedPlaceholdersText
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.UnorderedPlaceholdersText
45
issues
3
plugins
5M
impact
15
NonPrefixedFunctionFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
44
issues
3
plugins
5M
impact
16
file_system_operations_fclose
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fclose
24
issues
3
plugins
5M
impact
17
file_system_operations_fopen
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fopen
22
issues
3
plugins
5M
impact
18
file_system_operations_is_writable
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_is_writable
15
issues
3
plugins
5M
impact
19
hidden_files
ERRORplugin_repo
hidden_files
12
issues
3
plugins
5M
impact
20
file_system_operations_mkdir
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_mkdir
8
issues
3
plugins
5M
impact