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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

4,315

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

5

With reported issues

Total Impact

3M

Active installations

Clear
SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
67.0%
security
2,892
issues
16.9%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
666
issues
5
plugins
158K
impact
plugin_repo
730
issues
12.4%
general
535
issues
3.2%
uncategorized
137
issues
0.5%
performance
21
issues
2
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
394
issues
5
plugins
158K
impact
3
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
391
issues
5
plugins
158K
impact
4
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
191
issues
5
plugins
158K
impact
5
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
170
issues
5
plugins
158K
impact
6
Discouraged
WARNINGuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged
29
issues
5
plugins
158K
impact
7
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
431
issues
4
plugins
150K
impact
8
date_date
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DateTime.RestrictedFunctions.date_date
63
issues
4
plugins
150K
impact
9
unlink_unlink
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.unlink_unlink
62
issues
4
plugins
150K
impact
10
file_system_operations_fclose
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fclose
39
issues
4
plugins
150K
impact
11
file_system_operations_fopen
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fopen
36
issues
4
plugins
150K
impact
12
NonSingularStringLiteralText
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.NonSingularStringLiteralText
27
issues
4
plugins
150K
impact
13
parse_url_parse_url
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.parse_url_parse_url
10
issues
4
plugins
150K
impact
14
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
443
issues
4
plugins
148K
impact
15
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
34
issues
4
plugins
148K
impact
16
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
34
issues
4
plugins
148K
impact
17
mismatched_plugin_name
WARNINGuncategorized
mismatched_plugin_name
4
issues
4
plugins
148K
impact
18
UnsafePrintingFunction
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.UnsafePrintingFunction
541
issues
3
plugins
140K
impact
19
file_system_operations_is_writable
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_is_writable
24
issues
3
plugins
140K
impact
20
NonEnqueuedStylesheet
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.WP.EnqueuedResources.NonEnqueuedStylesheet
8
issues
3
plugins
140K
impact