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Total Issues

2,323

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

2

With reported issues

Total Impact

2M

Active installations

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SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
71.7%
security
1,665
issues
12.4%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
353
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
general
289
issues
11.6%
plugin_repo
270
issues
4.1%
uncategorized
96
issues
0.1%
performance
3
issues
2
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
258
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
3
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
251
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
4
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
234
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
5
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
143
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
6
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
85
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
7
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
75
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
8
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
63
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
9
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
55
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
10
NonSingularStringLiteralText
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.NonSingularStringLiteralText
43
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
11
SchemaChange
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.SchemaChange
37
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
12
parse_url_parse_url
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.parse_url_parse_url
34
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
13
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
27
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
14
unlink_unlink
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.unlink_unlink
25
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
15
rand_mt_rand
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.rand_mt_rand
24
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
16
file_system_operations_fwrite
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fwrite
18
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
17
InterpolatedNotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared
18
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
18
rand_rand
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.rand_rand
17
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
19
wp_redirect_wp_redirect
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.SafeRedirect.wp_redirect_wp_redirect
16
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact
20
file_system_operations_is_writable
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_is_writable
16
issues
2
plugins
120K
impact