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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

175,257

Across 3 categories

Affected Plugins

2,056

With reported issues

Total Impact

854M

Active installations

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Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
91.4%
security
160,253
issues
7.9%
performance
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
51K
issues
2K
plugins
173M
impact
13,821
issues
0.7%
uncategorized
1,183
issues
2
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
56K
issues
2K
plugins
166M
impact
3
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
27K
issues
1K
plugins
86M
impact
4
InterpolatedNotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared
19K
issues
895
plugins
69M
impact
5
slow_db_query_meta_key
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_key
6K
issues
713
plugins
65M
impact
6
slow_db_query_meta_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_query
3K
issues
675
plugins
61M
impact
7
SchemaChange
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.SchemaChange
4K
issues
709
plugins
53M
impact
8
slow_db_query_meta_value
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_value
2K
issues
484
plugins
51M
impact
9
slow_db_query_tax_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_tax_query
2K
issues
517
plugins
38M
impact
10
UnfinishedPrepare
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.UnfinishedPrepare
648
issues
204
plugins
19M
impact
11
QuotedSimplePlaceholder
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.QuotedSimplePlaceholder
1K
issues
222
plugins
14M
impact
12
ReplacementsWrongNumber
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.ReplacementsWrongNumber
262
issues
110
plugins
9M
impact
13
mysql_mysqli_query
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysqli_query
59
issues
21
plugins
7M
impact
14
mysql_mysql_query
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_query
30
issues
16
plugins
7M
impact
15
LikeWildcardsInQuery
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.LikeWildcardsInQuery
226
issues
82
plugins
6M
impact
16
mysql_mysql_errno
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_errno
17
issues
6
plugins
6M
impact
17
mysql_mysqli_error
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysqli_error
70
issues
13
plugins
6M
impact
18
mysql_mysql_error
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_error
24
issues
11
plugins
6M
impact
19
mysql_mysql_free_result
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions.mysql_mysql_free_result
10
issues
9
plugins
6M
impact
20
UnquotedComplexPlaceholder
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.UnquotedComplexPlaceholder
385
issues
52
plugins
6M
impact