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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

238,565

Across 3 categories

Affected Plugins

3,015

With reported issues

Total Impact

859M

Active installations

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Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
92.0%
security
219,562
issues
7.4%
performance
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
70K
issues
3K
plugins
174M
impact
17,572
issues
0.6%
uncategorized
1,431
issues
2
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
77K
issues
3K
plugins
167M
impact
3
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
36K
issues
2K
plugins
86M
impact
4
InterpolatedNotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared
27K
issues
1K
plugins
69M
impact
5
slow_db_query_meta_key
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_key
8K
issues
1K
plugins
65M
impact
6
slow_db_query_meta_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_query
4K
issues
953
plugins
61M
impact
7
SchemaChange
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.SchemaChange
6K
issues
1K
plugins
54M
impact
8
slow_db_query_meta_value
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_value
3K
issues
709
plugins
51M
impact
9
slow_db_query_tax_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_tax_query
2K
issues
735
plugins
38M
impact
10
UnfinishedPrepare
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.UnfinishedPrepare
835
issues
274
plugins
19M
impact
11
QuotedSimplePlaceholder
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.QuotedSimplePlaceholder
1K
issues
288
plugins
14M
impact
12
ReplacementsWrongNumber
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.ReplacementsWrongNumber
321
issues
144
plugins
9M
impact
13
mysql_mysqli_query
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysqli_query
74
issues
24
plugins
7M
impact
14
mysql_mysql_query
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_query
34
issues
19
plugins
7M
impact
15
LikeWildcardsInQuery
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.LikeWildcardsInQuery
286
issues
108
plugins
6M
impact
16
mysql_mysql_errno
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_errno
18
issues
7
plugins
6M
impact
17
mysql_mysqli_error
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysqli_error
74
issues
15
plugins
6M
impact
18
mysql_mysql_error
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_error
30
issues
14
plugins
6M
impact
19
mysql_mysql_free_result
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_free_result
11
issues
10
plugins
6M
impact
20
UnquotedComplexPlaceholder
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.UnquotedComplexPlaceholder
493
issues
67
plugins
6M
impact