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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

7,259

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

6

With reported issues

Total Impact

2M

Active installations

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Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
74.8%
security
5,427
issues
16.2%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
2K
issues
6
plugins
102K
impact
plugin_repo
1,174
issues
4.3%
uncategorized
313
issues
4.2%
general
303
issues
0.6%
performance
42
issues
2
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
471
issues
6
plugins
102K
impact
3
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
405
issues
6
plugins
102K
impact
4
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
401
issues
6
plugins
102K
impact
5
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
392
issues
6
plugins
102K
impact
6
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
286
issues
6
plugins
102K
impact
7
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
214
issues
6
plugins
102K
impact
8
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
163
issues
6
plugins
102K
impact
9
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
151
issues
6
plugins
102K
impact
10
SchemaChange
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.SchemaChange
36
issues
6
plugins
102K
impact
11
UnorderedPlaceholdersText
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.UnorderedPlaceholdersText
30
issues
6
plugins
102K
impact
12
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
776
issues
5
plugins
99K
impact
13
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
224
issues
5
plugins
99K
impact
14
NonPrefixedFunctionFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
180
issues
5
plugins
99K
impact
15
InterpolatedNotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared
123
issues
5
plugins
99K
impact
16
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
91
issues
5
plugins
99K
impact
17
strip_tags_strip_tags
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.strip_tags_strip_tags
30
issues
5
plugins
98K
impact
18
UnsafePrintingFunction
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.UnsafePrintingFunction
911
issues
5
plugins
94K
impact
19
plugin_header_no_license
ERRORplugin_repo
plugin_header_no_license
4
issues
4
plugins
92K
impact
20
load_plugin_textdomainFound
WARNINGplugin_repo
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound
3
issues
3
plugins
88K
impact