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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

14,238

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

23

With reported issues

Total Impact

67M

Active installations

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SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
43.7%
plugin_repo
6,216
issues
26.9%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
mismatched_plugin_name
WARNINGuncategorized
mismatched_plugin_name
13
issues
13
plugins
4M
impact
general
3,829
issues
25.1%
security
3,571
issues
3.4%
performance
485
issues
1.0%
uncategorized
137
issues
2
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
243
issues
18
plugins
4M
impact
3
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
229
issues
17
plugins
4M
impact
4
load_plugin_textdomainFound
WARNINGplugin_repo
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound
26
issues
17
plugins
4M
impact
5
unlink_unlink
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.unlink_unlink
91
issues
15
plugins
4M
impact
6
trademarked_term
ERRORplugin_repo
trademarked_term
18
issues
11
plugins
4M
impact
7
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
48
issues
10
plugins
3M
impact
8
Discouraged
WARNINGuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged
38
issues
12
plugins
3M
impact
9
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
4K
issues
23
plugins
3M
impact
10
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
495
issues
21
plugins
3M
impact
11
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
199
issues
21
plugins
3M
impact
12
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
222
issues
18
plugins
3M
impact
13
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
711
issues
23
plugins
3M
impact
14
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
1K
issues
19
plugins
3M
impact
15
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
437
issues
19
plugins
3M
impact
16
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
225
issues
19
plugins
3M
impact
17
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
205
issues
17
plugins
3M
impact
18
parse_url_parse_url
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.parse_url_parse_url
27
issues
12
plugins
3M
impact
19
ExceptionNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.ExceptionNotEscaped
46
issues
6
plugins
3M
impact
20
error_log_print_r
WARNINGplugin_repo
WordPress.PHP.DevelopmentFunctions.error_log_print_r
18
issues
5
plugins
3M
impact