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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

180,839

Across 3 categories

Affected Plugins

2,180

With reported issues

Total Impact

855M

Active installations

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Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
91.5%
security
165,434
issues
7.8%
performance
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
52K
issues
2K
plugins
173M
impact
14,165
issues
0.7%
uncategorized
1,240
issues
2
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
58K
issues
2K
plugins
166M
impact
3
NotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
28K
issues
1K
plugins
86M
impact
4
InterpolatedNotPrepared
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared
20K
issues
944
plugins
69M
impact
5
slow_db_query_meta_key
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_key
7K
issues
753
plugins
65M
impact
6
slow_db_query_meta_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_query
3K
issues
704
plugins
61M
impact
7
SchemaChange
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.SchemaChange
4K
issues
752
plugins
54M
impact
8
slow_db_query_meta_value
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_value
2K
issues
508
plugins
51M
impact
9
slow_db_query_tax_query
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_tax_query
2K
issues
546
plugins
38M
impact
10
UnfinishedPrepare
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.UnfinishedPrepare
654
issues
209
plugins
19M
impact
11
QuotedSimplePlaceholder
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.QuotedSimplePlaceholder
1K
issues
231
plugins
14M
impact
12
ReplacementsWrongNumber
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.ReplacementsWrongNumber
267
issues
112
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
31
issues
17
plugins
7M
impact
15
LikeWildcardsInQuery
WARNINGsecurity
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.LikeWildcardsInQuery
227
issues
83
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
386
issues
53
plugins
6M
impact